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sum; would be well tended and his wounds carefully
dressed.
192. cut...brains Madman's variation on 'cut to the
heart'; but no doubt imagining a wound in battle.
193. No secondsP sc.'No rescue?' see G.'second'.
194. salt sc. tears.
196-8. Ay...you that? G.I.D.'s lining.
196. Ay,...dust. (<Q)Fom. Between'dust.'and
'I' Q re-assigns to Lear. Poss. a speech by another
character was accidentally omitted. Edd. freq. read
'Gent. Good sir—' from Q 2, though this is presum-
ably only a conj.
196-7. die...bridegroom Sh. has the same thought in
Ant. 4. 14. 99-108, and Meas. 3. 1. 82-4. bravely
Quibble; see G. smug see G. He is thinking of the
flowers he wears [<K.].
198. masters (<F) Q (+Camb.) 'my maisters*.
that? (F) £>(+Camb.) 'that.'.
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200. there's...in't. = the case is not yet desperate'
(J.). *»(Pope) Q,F'and\
200-1. it...it The ransom (cf. 1. 191).
201. Sa, sa ' Here the King challenges his pursuers:
"Come on! come on! Catch me if you can!" And so
he runs off...waving his arm in a defiant gesture' (K.).
K. cites six other exx. (not in O.E.D.) all app. cries of
challenge or incitement to fight. Cf. also Alarum for
London (1602), M.S.R. 1134 Q.C.M.]. See G. 'sa,
sa', 'sessa*. S.D. <Q 'Exit King running.' +'atten-
dants follow' <Cap.
203-5. Thou...to. see G. 'nature', 'general'. her=
human nature. Gon. and Reg. have, like Adam and Eve,
by their sin brought all humanity under a curse; Cord,
is the Christ-like redeemer [G.I.D.]. Cf. 'like another
fill of man', H. F, 2. 2. 142 Q.C.M.].
203. one daughter (<Q+Camb.) F'a daughter'.
Q's 'one' forms an effective antithesis to 'twain' (1.205),