A Fool's Tale

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