lear 0.2.0

[
    {
        "Heading": {
            "act": "Act I",
            "scene": "Scene II",
            "setting": "The Earl of Gloucester's castle.",
            "staging": "Enter EDMUND, with a letter"
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 1,
            "end": 22,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My services are bound. Wherefore should I"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Stand in the plague of custom, and permit"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The curiosity of nations to deprive me,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "When my dimensions are as well compact,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My mind as generous, and my shape as true,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us"
                },
                {
                    "text": "With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take"
                },
                {
                    "text": "More composition and fierce quality"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund"
                },
                {
                    "text": "As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "And my invention thrive, Edmund the base"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Now, gods, stand up for bastards!"
                },
                {
                    "direction": "Enter GLOUCESTER"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 23,
            "end": 26,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Kent banish'd thus! and France in choler parted!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "And the king gone to-night! subscribed his power!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Confined to exhibition! All this done"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 27,
            "end": 27,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "So please your lordship, none."
                },
                {
                    "direction": "Putting up the letter"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 28,
            "end": 28,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 29,
            "end": 29,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "I know no news, my lord."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 30,
            "end": 30,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "What paper were you reading?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 31,
            "end": 31,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Nothing, my lord."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 32,
            "end": 35,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "No? What needed, then, that terrible dispatch of"
                },
                {
                    "text": "it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath"
                },
                {
                    "text": "not such need to hide itself. Let's see: come,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 36,
            "end": 39,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "I beseech you, sir, pardon me: it is a letter"
                },
                {
                    "text": "from my brother, that I have not all o'er-read;"
                },
                {
                    "text": "and for so much as I have perused, I find it not"
                },
                {
                    "text": "fit for your o'er-looking."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 40,
            "end": 40,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Give me the letter, sir."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 41,
            "end": 42,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The"
                },
                {
                    "text": "contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 43,
            "end": 43,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Let's see, let's see."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 44,
            "end": 45,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote"
                },
                {
                    "text": "this but as an essay or taste of my virtue."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 46,
            "end": 60,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "[Reads] 'This policy and reverence of age makes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps"
                },
                {
                    "text": "our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish"
                },
                {
                    "text": "them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in the oppression of aged tyranny; who sways, not"
                },
                {
                    "text": "as it hath power, but as it is suffered. Come to"
                },
                {
                    "text": "me, that of this I may speak more. If our father"
                },
                {
                    "text": "would sleep till I waked him, you should half his"
                },
                {
                    "text": "revenue for ever, and live the beloved of your"
                },
                {
                    "text": "brother, EDGAR.'"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hum--conspiracy!--'Sleep till I waked him,--you"
                },
                {
                    "text": "should enjoy half his revenue,'--My son Edgar!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Had he a hand to write this? a heart and brain"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to breed it in?--When came this to you? who"
                },
                {
                    "text": "brought it?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 61,
            "end": 63,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "It was not brought me, my lord; there's the"
                },
                {
                    "text": "cunning of it; I found it thrown in at the"
                },
                {
                    "text": "casement of my closet."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 64,
            "end": 64,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "You know the character to be your brother's?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 65,
            "end": 67,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear"
                },
                {
                    "text": "it were his; but, in respect of that, I would"
                },
                {
                    "text": "fain think it were not."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 68,
            "end": 68,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "It is his."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 69,
            "end": 70,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "It is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is"
                },
                {
                    "text": "not in the contents."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 71,
            "end": 71,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Hath he never heretofore sounded you in this business?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 72,
            "end": 75,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft"
                },
                {
                    "text": "maintain it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "and fathers declining, the father should be as"
                },
                {
                    "text": "ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 76,
            "end": 80,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "O villain, villain! His very opinion in the"
                },
                {
                    "text": "letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "brutish villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "seek him; I'll apprehend him: abominable villain!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Where is he?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 81,
            "end": 91,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please"
                },
                {
                    "text": "you to suspend your indignation against my"
                },
                {
                    "text": "brother till you can derive from him better"
                },
                {
                    "text": "testimony of his intent, you shall run a certain"
                },
                {
                    "text": "course; where, if you violently proceed against"
                },
                {
                    "text": "him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great"
                },
                {
                    "text": "gap in your own honour, and shake in pieces the"
                },
                {
                    "text": "heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life"
                },
                {
                    "text": "for him, that he hath wrote this to feel my"
                },
                {
                    "text": "affection to your honour, and to no further"
                },
                {
                    "text": "pretence of danger."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 92,
            "end": 92,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Think you so?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 93,
            "end": 96,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "If your honour judge it meet, I will place you"
                },
                {
                    "text": "where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an"
                },
                {
                    "text": "auricular assurance have your satisfaction; and"
                },
                {
                    "text": "that without any further delay than this very evening."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 97,
            "end": 97,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "He cannot be such a monster--"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 98,
            "end": 98,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Nor is not, sure."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 99,
            "end": 103,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "To his father, that so tenderly and entirely"
                },
                {
                    "text": "loves him. Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him"
                },
                {
                    "text": "out: wind me into him, I pray you: frame the"
                },
                {
                    "text": "business after your own wisdom. I would unstate"
                },
                {
                    "text": "myself, to be in a due resolution."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 104,
            "end": 105,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "I will seek him, sir, presently: convey the"
                },
                {
                    "text": "business as I shall find means and acquaint you withal."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "GLOUCESTER",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 106,
            "end": 122,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend"
                },
                {
                    "text": "no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can"
                },
                {
                    "text": "reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself"
                },
                {
                    "text": "scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "friendship falls off, brothers divide: in"
                },
                {
                    "text": "cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in"
                },
                {
                    "text": "palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son"
                },
                {
                    "text": "and father. This villain of mine comes under the"
                },
                {
                    "text": "prediction; there's son against father: the king"
                },
                {
                    "text": "falls from bias of nature; there's father against"
                },
                {
                    "text": "child. We have seen the best of our time:"
                },
                {
                    "text": "machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all"
                },
                {
                    "text": "ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our"
                },
                {
                    "text": "graves. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall"
                },
                {
                    "text": "lose thee nothing; do it carefully. And the"
                },
                {
                    "text": "noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his"
                },
                {
                    "text": "offence, honesty! 'Tis strange."
                },
                {
                    "direction": "Exit"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 123,
            "end": 144,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit"
                },
                {
                    "text": "of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our"
                },
                {
                    "text": "disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as"
                },
                {
                    "text": "if we were villains by necessity; fools by"
                },
                {
                    "text": "heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and"
                },
                {
                    "text": "treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of"
                },
                {
                    "text": "planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish"
                },
                {
                    "text": "disposition to the charge of a star! My"
                },
                {
                    "text": "father compounded with my mother under the"
                },
                {
                    "text": "dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa"
                },
                {
                    "text": "major; so that it follows, I am rough and"
                },
                {
                    "text": "lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "had the maidenliest star in the firmament"
                },
                {
                    "text": "twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar--"
                },
                {
                    "direction": "Enter EDGAR"
                },
                {
                    "text": "And pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old"
                },
                {
                    "text": "comedy: my cue is villanous melancholy, with a"
                },
                {
                    "text": "sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. O, these eclipses do"
                },
                {
                    "text": "portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDGAR",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 145,
            "end": 146,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "How now, brother Edmund! what serious"
                },
                {
                    "text": "contemplation are you in?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 147,
            "end": 148,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read"
                },
                {
                    "text": "this other day, what should follow these eclipses."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDGAR",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 149,
            "end": 149,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Do you busy yourself about that?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 150,
            "end": 156,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed"
                },
                {
                    "text": "unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child"
                },
                {
                    "text": "and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of"
                },
                {
                    "text": "ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and"
                },
                {
                    "text": "maledictions against king and nobles; needless"
                },
                {
                    "text": "diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDGAR",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 157,
            "end": 157,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "How long have you been a sectary astronomical?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 158,
            "end": 158,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Come, come; when saw you my father last?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDGAR",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 159,
            "end": 159,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Why, the night gone by."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 160,
            "end": 160,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Spake you with him?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDGAR",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 161,
            "end": 161,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Ay, two hours together."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 162,
            "end": 163,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Parted you in good terms? Found you no"
                },
                {
                    "text": "displeasure in him by word or countenance?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDGAR",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 164,
            "end": 164,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "None at all."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 165,
            "end": 170,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended"
                },
                {
                    "text": "him: and at my entreaty forbear his presence"
                },
                {
                    "text": "till some little time hath qualified the heat of"
                },
                {
                    "text": "his displeasure; which at this instant so rageth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in him, that with the mischief of your person it"
                },
                {
                    "text": "would scarcely allay."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDGAR",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 171,
            "end": 171,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Some villain hath done me wrong."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 172,
            "end": 177,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "That's my fear. I pray you, have a continent"
                },
                {
                    "text": "forbearance till the spied of his rage goes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "slower; and, as I say, retire with me to my"
                },
                {
                    "text": "lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to"
                },
                {
                    "text": "hear my lord speak: pray ye, go; there's my key:"
                },
                {
                    "text": "if you do stir abroad, go armed."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDGAR",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 178,
            "end": 178,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Armed, brother!"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 179,
            "end": 183,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Brother, I advise you to the best; go armed: I"
                },
                {
                    "text": "am no honest man if there be any good meaning"
                },
                {
                    "text": "towards you: I have told you what I have seen"
                },
                {
                    "text": "and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image"
                },
                {
                    "text": "and horror of it: pray you, away."
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDGAR",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 184,
            "end": 184,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "Shall I hear from you anon?"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "Dialogue": {
            "character": "EDMUND",
            "act": 1,
            "scene": 2,
            "start": 185,
            "end": 191,
            "lines": [
                {
                    "text": "I do serve you in this business."
                },
                {
                    "direction": "Exit EDGAR"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A credulous father! and a brother noble,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Whose nature is so far from doing harms,"
                },
                {
                    "text": "That he suspects none: on whose foolish honesty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My practises ride easy! I see the business."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:"
                },
                {
                    "text": "All with me's meet that I can fashion fit."
                },
                {
                    "direction": "Exit"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
]