Unlike the cheek-cracking night into which Lear howled, we pity both fools and wisemen. Here are search results from Open Shakespeare for the word "nuncle" (bonus points if you guess which one was my high school yearbook quote - ok, due to popular demand it is in moving text): * Work: King Lear, Line: 2890
Fool.
O nuncle, court holy water in a dry house is better than this
rain water out o' door. Good nuncle, in; and ask thy daughters
blessing: here's a night pities nether wise men nor fools.
* Work: King Lear, Line: 1435
Fool.
Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry,--take the fool with thee.--
A fox when one has caught her,
And such a daughter,
Should sure to the slaughter,
If my cap would buy a halter;
So the fool follows after.
* Work: King Lear, Line: 3118
Fool.
Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit.
Help me, help me!
* Work: King Lear, Line: 3429
Fool.
Pr'ythee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a gentleman or a
yeoman.
* Work: King Lear, Line: 1582
Fool.
If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten for being
old before thy time.
* Work: King Lear, Line: 1223
Pr'ythee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy fool to
lie; I would fain learn to lie.
* Work: King Lear, Line: 1146
Fool.
Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer,--you gave me
nothing for't.--Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?
* Work: King Lear, Line: 1269
Fool.
For you know, nuncle,
The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long
That it had it head bit off by it young.
So out went the candle, and we were left darkling.
* Work: King Lear, Line: 3221
Fool.
Pr'ythee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night to swim
in.--Now a little fire in a wild field were like an old lecher's
heart,--a small spark, all the rest on's body cold.--Look, here
comes a walking fire.
* Work: King Lear, Line: 2432
Fool.
Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she
put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em o' the coxcombs with
a stick and cried 'Down, wantons, down!' 'Twas her brother that,
in pure kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.
* Work: King Lear, Line: 1187
Fool.
No, faith; lords and great men will not let me: if I had a
monopoly out, they would have part on't and loads too: they
will not let me have all the fool to myself; they'll be
snatching.--Nuncle, give me an egg, and I'll give thee two
crowns.
* Work: King Lear, Line: 1213
Fool.
I have used it, nuncle, e'er since thou mad'st thy daughters thy
mothers; for when thou gav'st them the rod, and puttest down
thine own breeches,
[Singing.]
Then they for sudden joy did weep,
And I for sorrow sung,
That such a king should play bo-peep
And go the fools among.
* Work: King Lear, Line: 1130
Fool.
Mark it, nuncle:--
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.
* Work: King Lear, Line: 1099
Fool.
Why, for taking one's part that's out of favour. Nay, an thou
canst not smile as the wind sits, thou'lt catch cold shortly:
there, take my coxcomb: why, this fellow hath banish'd two on's
daughters, and did the third a blessing against his will; if
thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb.--How now,
nuncle! Would I had two coxcombs and two daughters!
* Work: King Lear, Line: 1229
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