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" I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses,- and who wins ; who's in, who's out... "
Characters of Shakespear's Plays - Page 174
by William Hazlitt - 1817 - 352 pages
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Paul Green, Playwright of the Real South

John Herbert Roper - 2003 - 364 pages
...cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down. And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At...loses, and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies.24 EPILOGUE By the planting season of 1981 Paul...
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Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier

Boris Fishman - 2003 - 289 pages
...prison." And he tells Cordelia about all the things they can do together in prison: they will live, and pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh...butterflies, and hear poor rogues talk of court news, and they'll talk with them too — who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out, and take upon themselves...
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Playing Lear

Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pages
...the cage. When thou dost ask me blessing I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh...butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news. Lear's vision of prison is clearly unrealistic. How unbalanced is he still? The lack of dynamic in...
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins, who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out In a walled prison packs and sects of great ones That ebb and flow by th' moon . . . (King Lear, v, i, 8-19)...
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In Praise of Wisdom: Literary and Theological Reflections on Faith and Reason

Kim Paffenroth - 2004 - 188 pages
...th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh...and who wins; who's in, who's out — And take upon 's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out, In a walled prison, packs and...
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Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp - 2004 - 696 pages
...cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh...loses, and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a walled prison, packs...
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Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies

Piotr Sadowski - 2003 - 336 pages
...to the now discarded persona and stoically indifferent to the affairs of this world: So we'll live And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh...loses and who wins, who's in, who's out — And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies. (5.3.11-17) The inner calm insulates Lear psychologically...
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Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures

Erica Fudge - 2004 - 264 pages
...no, no. Come, let's away to prison. We two alone will sing like birds i'th' cage. ... so we'll live And pray and sing and tell old tales and laugh At...Talk of court news, and we'll talk with them too. . . . He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven And fire us hence like foxes. :3 His bird metaphor...
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Shakespeare's King Lear with The Tempest: The Discovery of Nature and the ...

Mark Allen McDonald - 2004 - 334 pages
...ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At guilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news;...loses and who wins, who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were Gods spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs...
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The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature

R. Clifton Spargo - 2004 - 338 pages
...i'th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh...butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news. . . . (5.3.8-14) Ending his speech confident that in a "walled prison" he and Cordelia can outlast...
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