...time. Lear How's that? Fool Thou should'st not have been old till thou hadst been 40 wise. Lear Oh! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! Fool The taste will be the same. You know why one's nose is in the middle of one's face? Lear No. Fool...

...thou wcrt my fool, nuncle, I'd have thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR How's that? FOOL Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been wise. LEAR O let me not be mad, sweet heaven! I would not be mad. Keep me 35 in temper; I would not be mad. [Enter SERVANT] Are the...

...thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR How's that? FOOL Thou should'st not have been old till thou hadst been wise. LEAR O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! 40 Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! Enter a GENTLEMAN. How now! Are the horses ready? GENT. Ready,...

...sea-monster. 10316 King Lear How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! 10317 King me had stroked the air; And though the sound were parted thence. Still left an echo in t 10318 King Lear Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! 10319 KingLear Down, thou climbing sorrow!...

...beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR How's that? 40 FOOL Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. LEAR O, let me not be mad, not...sweet heaven! Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! 44 [Enter a Gentleman.] How now, are the horses ready? GENTLEMAN Ready, my lord. LEAR Come, boy. FOOL...

...number of psychiatric disorders.54-266 But the greatest fear is well expressed by King Lear's cry, 'O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven / Keep me in temper: I would not be mad.' The wonder is that so many survivors of disaster recover and learn from their experiences - a theme...

...which appears as the madness that he dreads almost from the moment the devastation begins to unfold: O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (Iv43-44) And yet, Lear's madness becomes, in Edgar's words, Reason in madness. (IV.vi. 172-73) In...

...thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'd have thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR How's that? FOOL Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been wise. LEAR O, let me not be mad, sweet heaven! I would not be mad. 47 Keep me in temper; I would not be mad. [Enter a Servant.] Are...

...the Fall there is no redemption. Early in the play we learn that madness is something Lear dreads: O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (Act I, Sc. v, lines 37-38) He does go mad, but his madness takes many forms, from ranting at his daughters...

...departure. To illustrate with a simple example. At 1.5.43-4, Muir chooses to follow the Folio's wording ("O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; / Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"), relegating the Quarto's alternative to the notes. Foakes, however, combines them, while signaling with...