...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 drink it. I know...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...

...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 drink it. I know...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,...

...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...

...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 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. LEAR Do not abuse...

...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 drink it. I know...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...cautioned his people (Old Testament. Sirach3, 12-3). "I am mightily abused. I should even die with pity ... I know you do not love me; for your sisters have, as I do remember, done me wrong." With these words King Lear reproached his daughter, Cordelia (Shakespeare: King Lear, 1608). "As soon...