Ref.: To give away a kingdom A Fool what can I say I´ll endow you my coxcomb You have nothing left to pay Oh Nuncle once your daughters They are mothers to you now You gave them the rod As you put your breeches down A Fool´s Tale Fool´s Tale 1) A tale of King Lear who was old enough a fool To cast away his kingdom for he felt too old to rule Goneril, Regan and Cordelia held most dear Each to gain a third as the heritage of Lear As the heritage of Lear Ref.: To give away a kingdom A Fool what can I say I´ll endow you my coxcomb You have nothing left to pay Oh Nuncle once your daughters They are mothers to you now You gave them the rod As you put your breeches down A Fool´s Tale 2) Each daughter is to step forth to beguile the aging King To tell him how they love him and so sweet their tongues did sing Just Cordelia fell silent, she did not want to betray Her true love by sweet lies as her sisters them did say As her sisters them did say KING LEAR So young, and so untender? CORDELIA So young, my lord, and true. KING LEAR Let it be so; thy truth, then, be thy dower: For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate, and the night; Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and me Hold thee, from this, for ever. The barbarous Scythian, Or he that makes his generation messes To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and relieved, As thou my sometime daughter. Ref.: To give away a kingdom A Fool what can I say I´ll endow you my coxcomb You have nothing left to pay Oh Nuncle once your daughters They are mothers to you now You gave them the rod As you put your breeches down A Fool´s Tale