 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
 | William R. Elton - 1980 - 388 pages
...cry to his deceitful daughters may be also directed: Allow not nature more than nature needs, . . . If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. (lI.iv.268-272) (With this may be compared Alexander Niccholes,... | |
 | Richard Halpern - 1991 - 340 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,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. ded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; (1. 15—18) 46 That I might dri wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need — You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 160 pages
...poorest thing superfluous. 235 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 wearest, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need - 240 You heavens, give me that patience,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 176 pages
...poorest things superfluous. 260 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 patience — patience... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 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 see me here, you gods, a poor old man,... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - 1995 - 279 pages
...Porter's remark about French hose (II.iii.14). In Lear, too, costume marks social differentiation: "If only to go warm were gorgeous, / Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st" (II. iv. 268-9). On the liminal heath, Lear's robes represent "superflux," "lendings" he would... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass - 1996 - 422 pages
...one superfluous thing becoming the other. With the addition of Regan's unnecessarily gorgeous robes ("If only to go warm were gorgeous, / Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wears't, / Which scarcely keeps thee warm," II.iv.268-70), clothes rank as the play's representative... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1997 - 380 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,... | |
 | Judy Kronenfeld - 1998 - 404 pages
...poorest things 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.8 (2.4.264-70) On the one hand, Lear's speech resembles the... | |
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