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33 Goneril … facethe Quarto text has a longer dialogue in which Albany berates Goneril (see “Quarto Passages That Do Not Appear in the Folio,” p. 135)

34 ruderough

36 Milk-liveredpale-livered, cowardly (cowardice was associated with lack of blood in the liver and milk with women)

38 discerning … sufferingthat can distinguish between what may be honorably tolerated from what must not be endured

41 Proper … womandeformity does not seem as abhorrent in a devil (to whom it is appropriate) as it does in a woman

43 vainstupid/worthless

48 bredbrought up in his household

48 thrilledpierced, moved

48 remorsepity (for Gloucester)

49 Opposedopposed himself

49 bendingaiming, directing

50 threat-enragedenraged by the threat

53 afteri.e. to death

55 justices(divine) judges

55 netherearthly

56 vengeavenge, punish

63 all … lifedemolish the dream (of having Edmund) that I have constructed, leaving me with the life I hate

65 tartsour

69 backgoing back

4.3 Location: the French camp, near Dover. The Quarto text precedes this scene with another one in which Kent and a Gentleman discuss the French king’s return to France and Cordelia’s concern for her father (see “Quarto Passages That Do Not Appear in the Folio,” pp. 137–39)

Act 4 Scene 3

4.3 Colours military banners

2 vexedangry, turbulent

3 rank fumiterabundant fumitory (a vigorously growing weed)

3 furrow weedsweeds that grow in the furrows of plowed fields

4 burdocksweeds with prickly flower heads or burs

4 hemlockplant producing a potentially lethal sedative

4 cuckoo-flowersname given to various wildflowers growing when the cuckoo calls (i.e. May/June)

5 Darneltype of grass that grows as a weed among corn

5 idleuseless

8 What … wisdomwhat can human knowledge do

9 bereavèdstolen, lost

10 outward worthworldly goods

12 reposerest, sleep

13 that … operativethere are many effective medicinal herbs that can induce that in him

17 unpublished virtuessecret powers (of herbs)

18 aidanthelpful

18 remediateremedial, healing

20 ragefrenzy

21 wants the meansi.e. lacks the sanity

24 preparationequipped military force

27 Francei.e. the King of France

28 importunedimportunate, pressing

29 blownswollen with pride/corrupt

Act 4 Scene 4

4.4 Location: the Earl of Gloucester’s residence

4 adofuss

8 importmean, contain

10 postedhurried

11 ignorancefolly

15 nighteddarkened (literally, and in terms of his fortunes)

15 descrydiscover

17 aftergo after

19 waysroads

21 charged my dutyswore me to obedience

23 Belikeperhaps/probably

24 I’ll love theeRegan switches to the familiar thee to cajole him—love implies the promise of favors, sexual or otherwise

29 oeilladesamorous glances

29 speakingeloquent

30 of her bosomin her confidence/sexually intimate

32 Y’areye (you) are

33 take this notenote this well

35 convenientfitting

36 gather moreinfer the rest

39 call … herhave more sense

43 meeti.e. meet him

Act 4 Scene 5

4.5 Location: somewhere out in the open, near Dover

1 that same hillthe hill I mentioned (i.e. the cliff Gloucester described at the end of Act 4 Scene 1)

11 phrase and matterstyle and sense

17 choughsjackdaws or other birds of the crow family

17 wingfly across

17 midwayi.e. middle regions of

18 grosslarge

19 samphirearomatic plant used in pickling; it was picked from cliffs by men suspended on ropes

22 yondyonder, that

22 barksmall ship

23 her cock(the size of) her cock boat, a small boat towed behind a ship

25 th’unnumbered idle pebblecountless insignificant pebbles

27 the deficientmy defective

28 Toppletopple me

32 leap uprightjump up in the air

34 Here, friend’shere, friend, is

36 Prosper itcause it to prosper

40 trifleplay

46 opposelessirresistible

47 My … naturethe smoldering wick and hated remains of my life

51 conceitimagination

53 Yieldssubmits willingly

54 thisthis time, now

56 passdie

57 Whatwho (Edgar adopts another persona)

59 aughtanything

60 precipitatingfalling headlong

61 shiveredshattered

63 at eachend to end

67 bournboundary (between land and sea)

68 a-heighton high

68 shrill-gorgedshrill-throated

73 beguilecheat

84 whelkedtwisted

85 fiendi.e. tempting him to the sin of suicide

85 happy fatherfortunate old man ( fatherwas a form of address for an elderly man, though Edgar plays with the literal sense)

86 clearestbrightest, purest

86 make … impossibilitiesacquire honor for themselves by performing things that are impossible in the human world

93 freeuntroubled

94 The … thuswere he (Lear) in his right mind, he would never permit himself to dress like this (or possibly “Gloucester’s senses will not be able to withstand seeing his master like this”)

96 touchaccuse, blame/lay hands on

100 press-moneymoney paid to military recruits when they were conscripted (Lear seems to imagine he is recruiting an army)

100 crow-keeperscarecrow/person employed to scare crows from the crops

101 Draw … yarddraw your bow to its fullest extent (the length of a longbow’s arrow, which, at about thirty-six inches, was the same as the length of a cloth-seller’s measuring rod)

102 gauntletarmored glove thrown down as a challenge to a duel

103 prove it onmake good my cause against

103 brown billslong-handled weapons, painted or varnished brown and topped with axe-like blades; or soldiers carrying such weapons

103 well flown, birdthe language of falconry, here used to describe an arrow’s flight