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King Lear liked his Fool. He did not have the heart to punish him for his audacious words, however insulting they would be. The Fool was threatening him with such words as: <*>, but he never really meant them. When his Fool calls him a fool (his speech about "bitter and sweet fool" in verses 155-162), Lear does not give him any punishment: <*>