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King Lear, IV. vi

There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit,

Burning, scalding, stench, consumption; fie, fie,

fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good

apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's

money for thee.

Glo. O! let me kiss that hand!

Lear. Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

Glo. O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world

Shall so wear out to naught. Dost thou know me?

Lear. I remember thine eyes well enough.

Dost thou squiny at me? No, do thy worst,

blind Cupid; I'll not love. Read thou this

challenge; mark but the penning of it.

Glo. Were all the letters suns, I could not see.

Edg. [Aside.] I would not take this from report; it is,

And my heart breaks at it.

Lear. Read.

Glo. What! with the case of eyes?

Lear. O, ho! are you there with me? No

eyes in your head, nor no money in your purse?

Your eyes are in a heavy case, your purse in a

light: yet you see how this world goes.

Glo. I see it feelingly.

Lear. What! art mad? A man may see how

this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine

ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple

thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and,

handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the

thief? Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a

beggar?

Glo. Ay, sir.

 141 squiny: squint

148 case: sockets

158 handy-dandy; cf. n.

