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,... King Lear: A Tragedy - Page 88by William Shakespeare - 1770 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1857 - 434 pages
...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 Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 488 pages
...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, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But, for true need, You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...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, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
| 1857 - 848 pages
...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 gorgeons wear'st Which scarcely keeps thee warm.—But, for true need,— You heavens, give me that... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 pages
...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, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1859 - 518 pages
...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. Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But, for true need,— You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1859 - 662 pages
...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, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's : (5) '• " ' folio omits, your. (||) First folio, tee. » — lei litr be round tcilA Aim ;] wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 834 pages
...poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's : ing climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill, Resembling strong youth in his middle age, Yet morta wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
| Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells - 1982 - 116 pages
...problem of "true need": Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thce warm — and though in the course of the play he comes to condemn... | |
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