All 4 Uses of
yield
in
King Lear
- — Yield:—come before my father.†
Scene 2.1 *
- But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee, Life would not yield to age.†
Scene 4.1 *
- Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear's i' the town; Who sometime, in his better tune, remembers What we are come about, and by no means Will yield to see his daughter.†
Scene 4.3
- ] And yet I know not how conceit may rob The treasury of life when life itself Yields to the theft: had he been where he thought, By this had thought been past.†
Scene 4.6
Definitions:
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(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
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(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced