Reading The Tragedie of King Lear — William Shakespeare

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Foole.

I haue vsed it Nunckle, ere since thou mad'st

thy Daughters thy Mothers, for when thou

gau'st them

the rod, and put'st

downe thine owne breeches, then they

For sodaine ioy did weepe,

And I for sorrow sung,

That such a King should play bo‐peepe,

And goe the Foole among.

Pry'thy Nunckle keepe a Schoolemaster that can teach

thy Foole to lie, I would faine learne to lie.

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