MOON

1.Edmund.
Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound. Wherefore should I
Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? 1.1

2.Gloucester.
These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us 1.2

3.Edmund.
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are
sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we
make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars 1.2

4.Edmund.
Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,
Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon
To stand auspicious mistress, 2.1

5.Kent.
What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou knowest me! Is
it two days ago since I beat thee and tripped up thy heels before
the king? Draw, you rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon
shines; I’ll make a sop o’ the moonshine of you: draw, you
whoreson cullionly barbermonger, draw! 2.2

6.Edgar.
Give me your hand:—you are now within a foot
Of th’ extreme verge: for all beneath the moon
Would I not leap upright. 4.6

7.Edgar.
As I stood here below, methought his eyes
Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses, 4.6

8.Lear.
No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison:
We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage:
...
As if we were God’s spies: and we’ll wear out,
In a wall’d prison, packs and sects of great ones
That ebb and flow by the moon. 5.3