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Lear Key Quotes Act 5Scene Speaker Quote
5:1 Edmund “Know of the Duke…he’s full of alteration and self reproving; bring his constant pleasure.”
5:1 Regan “Our sister’s man is certainly miscarried.”
5:1 Edmund “In honoured love.”
5:1 Regan/ “I am doubtful that you have been conjunct and bosomed with her, as far as we call hers…Be not
Edmund familiar with her.”
“No, by mine honour, Madam…Fear me not.”
5:1 Goneril “(Aside) I had rather lose the battle than that sister should loosen him and me.”
5:1 Albany “It touches us, as France invades our land, not bolds the King, with others, whom, I fear, most just
and heavy cause make oppose.”
5:1 Edgar “Before you fight the battle, ope this letter. If you have victory let the trumpet sound for him that
brough it…I can produce a champion that will prove what is avouched there.”
5:1 Edmund “To both these sisters I have sworn my love; each jealous of the other, as the stung are of the
adder. Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed if both remain
alive…”
5:2 Edgar “Here, father, take the shadow of this tree…pray the right may thrive. If I ever return to you again,
I’ll bring you comfort.”
5:2 Edgar “Men must endure…Ripeness is all.”
5:3 Lear “No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison; we two alone will sing like birds I’th’cage: when thou
dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down, and ask of thee forgiveness…”
5:3 Edmund “Go follow them to prison. One step I have advanced thee; if thou dost as this instructs thee, thou
dost make thy way to noble fortunes…”
5:3 Albany “…I hold you but a subject of this war, not as a brother.”
5:3 Albany “Edmund, I arrest thee on capital treason…For your claim, fair sister, I bar it in the interest of my
wife; ‘Tis she is subcontracted to this lord, And I, her husband, contradict your banes.”
5:3 Regan “My sickness grows upon me.”
5:3 Edgar “…thou art a traitor, false to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father…”
5:3 Goneril “By th’law of war thou wast not bound to answer an unknown opposite; thou art not vanquished,
but cozened and beguiled.”
5:3 Edgar “My name is Edgar, and thy father’s son. The Gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make
instruments to plague us; the dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him his eyes.”
5:3 Edgar “…revealed myself unto him…I asked his blessing, and from first to last told him my pilgrimage:
but his flawed heart, alack, too weak the conflict to support! ‘Twixt two extremes of passion, joy
and grief, burst smilingly.”
5:3 Edgar “Kent, sir, banished Kent; who in disguise followed his enemy king, and did him service improper
for a slave.”
5:3 Edmund “Yet Edmund was beloved: the one the other poisoned for my sake, and after slew herself.”
5:3 Edmund “I pant for life; some good I mean to do despite of my own nature. Quickly send, be brief in it, to
th’castle; for my writ is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia.”
5:3 Edmund “He hath commission from thy wife and me to hang Cordelia in the prison, and to lay the blame on
her own despair, that she forbid herself.”
5:3 Lear “And my poor fool is hanged!...Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lip, look there, look there!”
5:3 Albany “Friends of my soul, you twain rule in this realm, and the good state sustain.”
5:3 Kent “I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no.”
5:3 Edgar “…we that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long.”
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