Kings: L

Enter Lear, mad, [fantastically dressed with weeds]
But who comes here?
The safer sense will ne’er accommodate His master thus.

Lear. No, they cannot touch me for coming;
I am the King himself.

Edg. O thou side-piercing sight!

Lear. Nature is above art in that respect. There’s your press money. That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper. Draw me a clothier’s yard. Look, look, a mouse! Peace, peace; this piece of toasted cheese will do’t. There’s my gauntlet; I’ll prove it on a giant. Bring up the brown bills. O, well flown, bird! i’ th’ clout, i’ th’ clout! Hewgh! Give the word.

Edg. Sweet marjoram.

Lear. Pass.

Glou. I know that voice.

Lear. Ha! Goneril with a white beard?
They flatter’d me like a dog, and told me I had white hairs in my beard ere the black ones ere there. To say ‘ay’ and ‘no’ to everything I said! ‘Ay’ and ‘no’ too was no good divinity. When the rain came to wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I found ’em, there I smelt ’em out.
Go to, they are not men o’ their words!
They told me I was everything.
’Tis a lie-I am not ague-proof. – William Shakespeare: King Lear

1. breac: speckled, symbolizing magical power (either brí or bua)
2. breachsholas: twilight, the time of most powerful brí
3. brí: inherent / intrensic personal power set by dán (lit essence, vigour, significance), cannot be won or gained, only developed or allowed to atrope
4. bua: gained or attained personal power, esp. in a given area (lit. victory, merit, talent)
5. buachaitheamh: to ‘flare power’, neutral samhlchaitheamh
6. buachloch: power-object