...not eight ? Fool. Yes, indeed : thou wouldst make a good fool. Lear. To take't again perforce! — Monster ingratitude! Fool. If thou wert my fool, nuncle,...How's that? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Lear. 0, let me not be mad, not mad, sweat heaven ! Keep me in temper :...

...eight ? Fool. Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool. Lear. To take't again perforce !1—Monster ingratitude ! Fool. If thou wert my fool, nuncle,...How's that ? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Lear. O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper; I...

...not eight ? Fool. Yes, indeed : thou wouldst make a good fool. Lear. To take 't again perforce ! — Monster ingratitude ! Fool. If thou wert my fool,...How's that ? FooL Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Lear. 0, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper :...

...not eight ? Fool. Yes, indeed : thou wouldst make a good fool. Lear. To take't again perforce 1 — Monster ingratitude ! Fool, If thou wert my fool,...How's that ? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Lear. O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I...

...course of the change to madness. It is preceded by a pang of terror in the close of the first act: — " O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! " There are well-marked struggles with the rising pang at his heart indicated throughout the scenes...

...him that he should not have been old before he was wise, he says, apparently abstracted : — " Oh let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! " It is one of the most common things in the world >J to find a man decidedly insane, and yet conscious...

...not eight ? Fool. Yes, indeed : thou wouldst make a good fool. Lear. To take't again perforce ! — Monster ingratitude ! Fool. If thou wert my fool,...How's that ? Fool. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. Lear. O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I...

...anguish, prayerfully, and in accents of wild and frenzied despair, to ejaclate with King Lear : " О let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ; Keep me In temper, I would not be mad." Dean Swift had a singular presentiment of his imbecility. Dr. Young, walking one day with the Dean,...

...resemblance to the utensil of that name ; a name, I believe, scarcely known in England. — ED. Lear. Oh, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me...— [Enter Gentleman] How now ! are the horses ready ? 45 Gent. Ready, my lord. Lear. Come, boy. Fool. She that's a maid now and laughs at my departure...

...And into the mouth of King Lear did not the inspired pen put words at once tender and true ? "Oh ! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet Heaven; Keep me in temper — I would not be mad ! " TWO FOKHS OF INSANITY. My observations, continued now for many years, and investigations I have...