All 7 Uses of
therefore
in
King Lear
- —[To France] For you, great king, I would not from your love make such a stray To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you To avert your liking a more worthier way Than on a wretch whom nature is asham'd Almost to acknowledge hers.†
Scene 1.1therefore = for that reason
- —Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison.†
Scene 1.1 *
- Therefore, I pray you, That to our sister you do make return; Say you have wrong'd her, sir.†
Scene 2.4
- I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw: full oft 'tis seen Our means secure us, and our mere defects Prove our commodities.†
Scene 4.1
- —O dear father, It is thy business that I go about; Therefore great France My mourning and important tears hath pitied.†
Scene 4.4
- I speak in understanding; you are, I know't: Therefore I do advise you, take this note: My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk'd; And more convenient is he for my hand Than for your lady's.†
Scene 4.5
- As I stood here below, methought his eyes Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses, Horns whelk'd and wav'd like the enridged sea: It was some fiend; therefore, thou happy father, Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours Of men's impossibility, have preserv'd thee.†
Scene 4.6
Definition:
for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)