Lear

He acted the part of King Lear.

Millôr Fernandes, who translated four of Shakespeare's plays (Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, and The Merry Wives of Windsor) into Portuguese, did not speak English.

when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].

'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like ony ither sober, godly person.'

They dressed up in maids' array, And passd for sisters fair; With ae consent gaed ower the sea, For to seek after lear.

First-generation Lears are beasts to fly.