LEAR: Be your tears wet? Yes, faith. I pray, weep not.
If you have poison for me, I will drink it.
I know you do not love me, for your sisters
Have, as I do remember, done me wrong.
You have some cause; they have not.
CORDELIA: No cause, no cause.
– William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7. Lear does not hold back his new sense of shame over the injustice he has done to his daughter Cordelia. In one of the play’s greatest tender moments, he takes responsibility for the hurt he has caused Cordelia and says he would willingly drink poison if she gave it to him. He believes that he justly deserves death for the wrongs he has done to her. But Cordelia shows her great capacity for love, compassion and forgiveness, by simply saying: "No cause, no cause." Lear has come a long way on his painful journey to self-knowledge. Abandoning his destructive pride, he is now a more humble person.