...pictures, 'with downcast eyes beneath th' almighty dove'" (1893, p. 251). And my poor fool is hanged. No, no, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat...Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her! Look, her lips. Look there,...

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...virtue, and all foes The cup of their deservings. O see, see! 280 Lear And my poor fool158 is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat,...Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.159 Thank you, sir. 285 Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips, Look...

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...strikingly in a death speech written almost twenty years after Cosroe's: And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat,...Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you see this? Look on her! Look her lips, Look there,...

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...other words to every parent who has lost a child. "I might have saved her; now she's gone for ever. . ..Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, /And thou no breath at all?" Tragic ordeal transformed to poetry: this is the model for any faithful life. As you begin this book,...

...and beauty and dignity that we call humanness should be snuffed out while mere beasts go on living. "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, /And thou no breath at all?" (IV, iii, 307), he asks, addressing the dead body of his beloved daughter Cordelia, which he carries...

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