YOUR QUOTATION: KING LEAR Quotation Test

Write in detail about the quotation you were assigned in class to discuss on  this blog. Include basic information: the speaker, the character(s) being addressed, the scene in which it occurs, the circumstances surrounding it utterance, its meaning within the scene, its literary significance within in the play, and whatever else you notice about it.
Over this weekend, both read and  highlight the handout I gave to you on Ancient Greek Literature. Bring it highlighted to class on Monday.
Since you requested it, here is the test you took today in class:

King Lear Test      March 11, 2011      Mr. Balgley

Read each quotation from King Lear, then identify the character who speaks those words in the play.

CHARACTERS:  A. King Lear     B. King of France               C. Cordelia    D. Regan     E. Gonoril     F. Kent

G. Gloucester    H. Edgar    I. Edmund    J. Fool           K. Cornwall     L. Albany     O. Oswald             

___1.  O Gonoril,/ You are not worth the dust which the rude wind/ Blows in your face

___2.  Fellows, hold the chair. /Upon those eyes of thine I’ll set my foot.

___3.  Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion/ Of my fierce endeavor.

___4. ‘Tis strange that from their cold’st neglect/ My love should kindle to inflamed respect.

___5.  O ruined piece of nature! This great world/ Should so wear out to naught.

___6.  Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave/ My heart into my mouth.

___7.  Thou hadst little wit in thy in thy bald crown when thou gavest thy golden one away.

___8.  Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

___9.  The art of our necessities is strange,/ That can make vile things precious.

___10. Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds/ Do sorely rustle. For miles about/ There’s not a bush.

___11. My duty cannot suffer/To obey all your daughters' hard commands./Though their injunction be to bar my doors.   Kenia

___12. I grow, I prosper. Now, gods, stand up for bastards.  Brittany

___13. In, boy; go first.-You houseless poverty-nay, get thee in.  Yunrui

___14. Why do I triffle thus with his despair/ Is done to cure it.  Yunrui

___15. And worse I may be yet. The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst." 

___16. See better, Lear, and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye.  Maurice

___17. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; /They kill us for their sport.  Brandon

­­___18. I grow; I prosper./Now, gods, stand up for bastards!  Brandon

___19. Gloucester's eyes being out, to let him live. Where he arrives he movies all hearts against us.  Medina

___20. A man may see how the world goes with no eyes; look with thy ears.  Medina

___21. O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars /Are in the poorest thing superfluous./ Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man’s life’s as cheap as beast’s. Raymond

___22. Happily, when I shall wed, that lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry half my love with, half  my care and duty.  Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, to love my father all.  Tiffany

___23. See thyself, devil! /Proper deformity seems not in the fiend/ So horrid as in woman.

___24.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.

___25. When we our betters see bearing our woes,/ We scarely think our miseries our woes

___26. Villain take my purse./ If thou wilt thrive, bury my body, /And give the letters which thou find’st about me to Edmund  Earl of Gloucester.

___27. When we are born, we cry that we are come/ To this great stage of fools.

___28. Methinks thy voice is alter’d, and thou speakest/ In better phrase and matter that thou didst.

___29. My most dear Gloucester./ To thee a woman’s services are due;/ My foot usurps my body.

___30. ‘Tis the infirmity of his age; he hath ever but slenderly known himself.

Optional Extra Credit Identifications:

__31. ‘Tis the times plague when madmen lead the blind.

__32. Ten masts a-length make not the altitude/ Which thou hast perpendicularly fell./ Thy life’s a miracle

__33. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;/ Filths savour but themselves.

__34. This world I do renounce, and in your sights/ Shake patiently my great affliction off !

__35. Shut up your doors./  He is attended with a desperate  train,/ and what they may incense him to . . .

__36. My tears begin to take his part so much/ They’ll mar my counterfeiting

__37. Why, this fellow hath banished two on’s daughters and done the third a blessing against his will

__37. My face I’ll grime with filth,/ Blanket my loins, elf all my hair with knots/ And with presented nakedness outface/ The wind and persecution of the sky

__39. Child Roland to the dark tower come,/ His word was still ‘Fie, fo, and fum;/ I smell the blood of a British man.

__40. Humanity must perforce prey on itself, / like monsters of the deep.