 Lear. Be your tears wet ? yes, faith. I pray, weep not : If you have poison for me I will drink it. I know you do not love me ; for your sisters Have, as I do remember, done me wrong : You have some cause, they have not. Cor. No cause, no cause.  MacMillan's Magazine - Page 230edited by - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Julian Markels - American fiction - 1993 - 180 pages
...nevertheless asks for poison because he thinks that is what he deserves: Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not: If you have poison for me, I will...done me wrong; You have some cause, they have not. (IV.vii.71-75) Even now he cannot recognize Cordelia's love because even now he is bargaining merit... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - Drama - 1993 - 290 pages
...this lady To be my child Cordelia. Cordelia: And so 1 am, I am. Lear: Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not: If you have poison for me, I will...done me wrong: You have some cause, they have not. Cordelia: No cause, no cause. Lear: Am I in France? (IV.vii.68-76) Even after "recognizing" Cordelia,... | |
 | Bennett Simon - Psychology - 1988 - 292 pages
...this lady To be my child Cordelia. Cordelia: And so I am, I am. Lear: Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not. If you have poison for me, I will drink it. (4.7.68-72) Tears, then, signify for Lear everything unacceptable to his fragile yet inflated sense... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am: I am! 70 LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith: I pray weep not. If you have poison for me, I will...done me wrong; You have some cause; they have not. CORDELIA No cause, no cause. LEAR Am I in France? KENT In your own kingdom, sir. LEAR Do not abuse... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA And so I am. LEAR Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not. 70 If you have poison for me, I will drink it. I know...done me wrong. You have some cause; they have not. CORDELIA No cause, no cause. LEAR Am I in France? KENT In your own kingdom, sir. 75 LEAR Do not abuse... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray weep not. If you have poison for me, I will...done me wrong. You have some cause, they have not. CORDELIA No cause, no cause. No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison. We two alone will sing like... | |
 | Corinna Ruth - Study Aids - 2013 - 148 pages
...he now sees the world "feelingly." When he first sees Cordelia, he no longer makes demands on her. I know you do not love me, for your sisters Have (as...done me wrong: You have some cause, they have not. Cordelia promptly responds to his unselfish sentiment with "No cause, no cause." Thinking he has come... | |
 | John M. Dunaway, Eric O. Springsted - Literary Collections - 1996 - 260 pages
...daughter who truly loved him: I am a very foolish fond old man ... I fear I am not in my perfect mind. ... If you have poison for me, I will drink it. I know...your sisters Have, as I do remember, done me wrong; 5 FLN 102-103: "God is absent from this world, except in the existence in this world of those in whom... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Drama - 1997 - 260 pages
...assurance ('and so I am, I am'), he poses his initial question again, although in a different key: 'I know you do not love me; for your sisters / Have,...done me wrong. / You have some cause, they have not' (iv. vii. 73-5). Gone is the arrogance of royalty - but the implicit demand remains: tell me that you... | |
 | Harold Schweizer - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 240 pages
...nature" (5.3.242-43) Lear, incorrigably clinging to his system of causality, protests even at the end: I know you do not love me; for your sisters Have,...done me wrong: You have some cause, they have not. (4.7.73-75) The point is, of course, that just as Cordelia has no cause not to love, she has no cause... | |
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