..."baseborn." For Edmund in King Lear, there is absolutely no difference at all between "bastard" and "base": Why bastard? Wherefore base? When my dimensions are...us With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? [I.ii.6-10]9 "Base" was used as a synonym for "bastard" in legal documents as well as in conversation...

...My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, 16 and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve...'base', with 'baseness', 'bastardy', 'base, base', 10 Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within...

...and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me? For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines 5 Lag of a brother? Why 'bastard'? Wherefore 'base'?...honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With 'base, base bastardy', 10 Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than...

...law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve...fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? Why bastard? (King Lean. 2. 1-6) The affinity of the word "nations" — in essence a "birth" word — to the topic...

...generous, and my shape as true As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With 'base, base bastardy', 10 Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than doth within a stale, dull-eyed bed go To the creating a whole tribe of fops Got 'tween a sleep and wake? Well, the...

...fitness to be true son and heir, using nature, as it were, to justify or determine the order of law: Why bastard? Wherefore base? When my dimensions are...generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? (1.2.6-9) ' The play links Gloucester's and Edgar's descents in several ways, and their roles as reflectors...

...law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother? (i. ii. 1-6) And it is of course from within the logic of such a Hobbesian state of nature that lago...

...and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines 5 Lag of a brother? Why 'bastard'? Wherefore 'base',...honest madam's issue? Why brand they us with ' base , base bastardy ', 10 Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than...

...legally seals it from sight): the biological nature of one's existence from conception to the present. Why "bastard"? Wherefore "base", When my dimensions...honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With "base"?... (1.2.6- 10). Indeed, Edmund goes further, arguing that the assuredly passionate nature of the illicit...

...law My services are hound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a hrother? Why hastard? Wherefore hase? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous and...