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King Lear
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33
Language - English
12th Grade
01/18/2009

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Term
1.1a
Definition
That future strife may be prevented now
-King Lear
Term
1.2
Definition
If it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles
-Gloucestor
Term
1.3
Definition
His knights grow riotous
-Goneril
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1.4
Definition
Cart coxcomb cuckoo peace egg
-Fool
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1.5
Definition
Thou shoulds't not have been old till thou hast been wise
-Fool
Term
2.1
Definition
Queasy question
-Edmund
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2.2
Definition
Glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue (bawd)
-Kent/Caius
Term
2.3
Definition
Basest and poorest shape
-Edgar
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2.4a
Definition
By Juno/Shut up your doors
-Kent/Regan
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2.4b
Definition
Scant my sizes
-King Lear
Term
3.1
Definition
Contending with the fretful elements
-Knight
Term
3.2a
Definition
I am a man more sinned against than sinning
-King Lear
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3.2b
Definition
Then shall the realm of Albion come to great confusion
-The Fool
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3.3
Definition
They took me the use of mine own house
-Gloucester
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3.4
Definition
I have ta'en too little care of this (hovel) philosopher (Poor Tom)
-King Lear
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3.5
Definition
This is the letter
-Edmund
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3.7
Definition
Out vile jelly, where is thy lustre now
-Cornwall
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4.1
Definition
I stumbled when I saw
-Gloucester
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4.2
Definition
Conceive
-Goneril
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4.4
Definition
Thy business that I go about
-Cordelia
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4.5
Definition
Strage oeillades to noble Edmund
-Regan
Term
4.6a
Definition
Trifle with his despair
-Edgar
Term
4.6b
Definition
Centaurs
-King Lear
Term
4.6c
Definition
Thorough tatter'd clothes great vices do appear; robes and furr'd gowns hide all
-King Lear
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4.6d
Definition
If he return the conqueror; then I am the prisoner; his bed my gael
-Goneril/Edgar
Term
4.7
Definition
Pray now, forget and forgive. I am old and foolish.
-King Lear
Term
5.1
Definition
Which of them shall I take?
-Edmund
Term
5.2
Definition
Men must endure [...] ripeness is all
-Edgar
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5.3a
Definition
Thy great employment will not bear question
-Edmund
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5.3b
Definition
Yet Edmund was beloved
-Edmund
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5.3c
Definition
Is this the promised end? (Kent) Or image of that horror (Edgar)
Term
1.1b
Definition
Which of you doth love us most
-King Lear
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5.3d
Definition
All friends shall taste the wages of their virtue, and all foes the cup of their deservings
-Albany
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