There are several things on Lear's mind here: sexual loathing, revenge, a hallucinatory, at times satirical, vision of court life and of himself as king, a foollike insistence on unpleasant truths in his conversations with Gloucester, […]
to glut one's appetite
Now for some rather more human terminology! Nodes can have mothers, daughters, and sisters (though interestingly the corresponding relations are known as fathers, sons, and brothers in Italian; I shall leave it to social anthropologists and psychologists to work out what the hidden significance of this cross-cultural transvestism may be!).
Come hither Filch. I am as fond of this Child, as though my Mind miſgave me he vvere my ovvn. He hath as fine a Hand at picking a Pocket as a VVWoman, and is as nimble-finger’d as a Juggler.
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