 O, reason not the need ! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow" not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare - Page 451by William Shakespeare - 1826Full view - About this book
 | 1853 - 758 pages
...lived in the stirring days of Queen Elizabeth, most appositely says, in reference to riches, — " O reason not the need ; our basest beggars Are in...superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs." Applicable as these lines are to Lord Compton's case, they remain an axiom for all future generations,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 pages
...64 KING LEAR. Act 11. Thy fifty yet doth double fiva and twenty, Ami thou art twice her love. Gon. Hear me, my lord ; What need you five and twenty,...Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's: thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...eheeks, through penury and pine, Were shrunk into his jaws, as he did never dine. Spenaer's Fairy Queen O, reason not the need, our basest beggars Are in...Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is eheap as beast's. Shake, Lear Poor naked wretehes, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 390 pages
...five-and-twen1y, ten, or five, To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend youl Reg. What need one ? Lear. O, reason not the need...Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1856 - 384 pages
...wretched life I may cut off, have pity ; with thy bolt This hateful head thrust down to Tartarus ! 459. O reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in...Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only to be warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you ? REO. What need one ? LEAR. 0, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the...Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1856 - 484 pages
...vague as the winds that are already heard preparing a rude reception for him on the heath ': " Oh, reason not the need — our basest beggars Are in...Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts'. Thou art a lady : If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 624 pages
...penury and pine, Were shrunk into his jaws , as he did never dine. Spenter's Fatry Queen O, rr.is'm not the need, our basest beggars Are in the poorest...Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is eheap as beast's. Sktb. Lear Poor naked wretehes, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of tins... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 488 pages
...with thee ; [ To GONERIL. Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty, And thou art twice her love. Gon. Hear me, my lord ; What need you five and twenty,...Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...fifty yet doth double five and twenty, And thou art twice her love. GONORILL Hear me, my lord. 230 What need you five and twenty? ten? or five? To follow...house where twice so many Have a command to tend you? REGAN What needs one? LEAR O reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous.... | |
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