...anguish, prayerfully, and in accents of wild and frenzied despair, to ejaculate with King Lear : " Oh ! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet Heaven ; Keep me in temper — I would not be mad." CAUSES OF INSANITY. All that disturbs, excites, or weakens the organization, and especially the nervous...

...interpretation, as more in keeping with what Lear says in line 31 : ' I will forget my nature.' Lear. Oh, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! — \_Enter Gentleman^ How now ! are the horses ready ? 45 Gent. Ready, my lord. Lear. Come, boy....

...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 1 " TWO FOKMS OF INSANITY. My observations, continued now for many years, and investigations I have...

...are 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, sweot heaven! Keep me in temper : I...

...not eight ? Fool. Yes, indeed : thou wouldst make a good Fool. Lear. To take it again perforce.!— monster ingratitude ! Fool. If thou wert my fool,...shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been wise. When Lear in his anguish of resentment is suffocating with the heavy sense of finding Regan no less...

...not eight ? Fool. Yes, indeed : thou wouldst make a good Fool. Lear. To take it again perforce ! — monster ingratitude ! Fool. If thou wert my fool,...beaten for being old before thy time. Lear. How's that ? Foul. Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been wise. When Lear in his anguish of resentment...

...choice of him had royalised his state, may be some little excuse for Albany's weakness. Ib. sc. 5.— " Lear. O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper ! I would not be mad !" The mind's own anticipation of madness ! The deepest tragic notes are often struck by a half sense...

...him had royalised his state, may be some little excuse for Albany's weakness. Ib. sc. 5.— " Lear. 0 let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper! I would not be mad!" The mind's own anticipation of madness ! The deepest tragic notes are often struck by a half sense...

...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,...mad! Enter Gentleman. How now ! are the horses ready ? Cent. Ready, my lord. Lear. Come, boy. [Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I. The Earl of Gloucester's castle....

...overwhelming experience, an experience too radical to be absorbed by the usual process of mental adjustment: O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper; I would not be mad! (1.5.43-4) Unlike Othello, Lear is so completely uprooted by his disillusioning experience that the...