King Lear Act III Scene III [SHAKESPEARE poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2018-07-28

Act III SCENE II. Another part of the heath. Storm still.
Enter KING LEAR and Fool 
KING LEAR 
Em B7 Em
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
D B7 Em
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Em B7 Em
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
D C Em
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,

B7 Em
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
C G B7
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
C D Am
Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
G F 
Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once,
B7
That make ingrateful man!

Fool 
D Bm Em A
O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry
D Bm Em A
house is better than this rain-water out o' door.
D Bm Em A
Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters' blessing: D Bm Em A
Bm A G
here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool.

KING LEAR 
Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,

You owe me no subscription: then let fall
Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:
But yet I call you servile ministers,

Am Em
That have with two pernicious daughters join'd
Am Em
Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head
D C B7
So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul!

Fool 
He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.
The cod-piece that will house
Before the head has any,
The head and he shall louse;

So beggars marry many.
The man that makes his toe
What he his heart should make
Shall of a corn cry woe,

D Em
And turn his sleep to wake.
D Em
For there was never yet fair woman but she made
Bm A G
mouths in a glass.

KING LEAR 
No, I will be the pattern of all patience;
I will say nothing.


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