fordo

"Sweet the song, the story sweet, There is no man hearkens it, No man living 'neath the sun, So outwearied, so foredone, Sick and woful, worn and sad, But is healed, but is glad

Quite another thing in Practice; every window of your Feeling, even of your Intellect, as it were, begrimed and mud-bespattered, so that no pure ray can enter; a whole Drugshop in your inwards; the foredone soul drowning slowly in quagmires of Disgust!

Revenge held fatal sway: but with that sun His hopes had set, and his youth's race was run; His days of bliss were number'd and foredone. (II.

As Goneril makes her final and fatal exit, Albany describes her as "desperate" (5.3.159); shortly thereafter, Kent tells Lear that she and Regan "have foredone themselves / And desperately are dead" (5.3.289-90).

Puck rises with the dead "Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, / All with heavy task foredone" (V.i.373-74) and enters the house where "[n]ow the wasted brands do glow" (5.1.375).