...EDGAR He faints. - My lord, my lord! LEAR Break, heart, I prithee break. EDGAR Look up, my lord. KENT Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world 310 Stretch him out longer. EDGAR O, he is gone indeed. KENT The wonder is he hath endured...

...faints. — My lord, my lord! 310 KENT Break, heart; I prithee break. EDGAR Look up, my lord. KENT Vex not his ghost: O let him pass; he hates him, That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. EDGAR He is gone indeed. KENT The wonder is he hath endured so...

...faints. [{To Lear)] My lord, my lord! LEAR. Break, heart, I prithee break. EDGAR. Look up, my lord. KENT. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. EDGAR. O, he is gone indeed. To which Folio made two changes. It...

...utility of living.10 We need only recall Kent's comment when signs of life are noted in the dying Lear: "Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer." ' ' A right to seek assistance in committing suicide has value...

...imagining, 'As flies to wanton boys, are we to th'gods, They kill us for their sport' (lv. i. 36-7): Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass, he hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer, (v. iii. 314-16) But Lear himself, in a much debated last statement,...

...world to the next. Kent's compassionate injunction explicitly touches on this theme of acceptance: 'Vex not his ghost: O let him pass! He hates him / That would upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer' (v. iii. 315-17). Edgar earlier touched upon the same theme as...

...Written in a Country Churchyard," st. 1-2 (1751). Repr. in Poetical Works, ed. J. Rogers (1953). Events O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Kent,...

...and quoted Kent's lines from King Lear, spoken immediately after Lear dies, to buttress its argument: "Vex not his ghost: O! let him pass; he hates him/ That would upon the rack of this tough world/Stretch him out longer." Courts almost never resort to quoting literature, and when they...

...Edgar, who "wants to revive the unconscious king" (Lear has not fainted, as Proust says, but is dead): Vex not his ghost. O let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (5.3.289-91) 74. Among the works I have consulted are Rosalie L....

...comes through an intense psychic shock that is, as Kent perceives, the equivalent of a mercy killing: O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer. (5.3.289-91) The secret agent of this death is neither an enemy...