King Lear
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If he asks for me,
I am ill and gone to bed.

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If I die for it,
as no less is threatened me,

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the King, my old master,
must be relieved.

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Pray you, be careful.
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What hast thou been?
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A serving-man,
proud in heart and mind;

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that curl'd my hair;
wore gloves in my cap;

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serv'd the lust of
my mistress' heart

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and did the act
of darkness with her;

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swore as many oaths
as I spake words,

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and broke them
in the sweet face of heaven.

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One that slept
in the contriving of lust,
and wak'd to do it.

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Wine lov'd I deeply,
dice dearly;

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and in woman
out-paramour'd the Turk.

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False of heart,
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light of ear, bloody of hand;
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hog in sloth, fox in stealth,
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wolf in greediness,
dog in madness,

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lion in prey.
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Let not the creaking of shoes
nor the rustling of silks

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betray thy poor heart
to woman.

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And defy the foul fiend.
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Still through the hawthorn
blows the cold wind.

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Thou wert better in a grave
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than to answer
with thy uncover'd body
this extremity of the skies.

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Is man no more than this?
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Consider him well.
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Thou ow'st the worm no silk,
the beast no hide,


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