 Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O! I have ta'en Too little care of this....  The dramatic works of William Shakspeare - Page 54by William Shakespeare - 1814Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...enough. KL iv. 1. If sorrow can admit society Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine. R.III. iv. 4. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ; That thou may'st shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. KL iii. 4. 364 TABLE TALK. Pray... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...her face, The scent less fragrant than her breath. Prior. WRETCHEDNESS. WRINKLE. 699 WRETCHEDNESS. POOR naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? Shakspere. My loss is such as cannot be repair'd, And to the wretched, life can be no mercy. I)ryden,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...the Fool.] You houselrt» poverty, — Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep, — [Fool goes in. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,...houseless heads, and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggeiiness, defend you From seasons such as these? 0, 1 have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 480 pages
...storm, How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, Your.loop'dand wiudow'd raggedness, cU-ft-nd you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta*en Too...Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ; . That thou may'st shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. Edg. [Within."} Fathom and half,... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - English poetry - 1854 - 380 pages
...to mouth, Than Sawney, out of season, shall impart The songs of gladness with an aching heart. 345 Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...houseless heads, and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window' d raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? LEAK. JOCKEY. Still have I known thee... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...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...loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons sueh as these ? Shake. King Lear. Through tatter' d elothes small viees do appear ; Robes, and furr'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...Fool.] You houseless poverty, — Nay, get thee in. I 'll pray, and then I 'll sleep. — [Fool goet in. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That...Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ; That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. EDO. [ Within.'] Fathom and half,... | |
 | Charles Olson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 492 pages
...in the storm scene senses it, but Gloucester blind speaks it: "I stumbled when I saw." Lear's words: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. Gloucester's words come later, Act... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Dramatists, English - 1997 - 380 pages
...hovel. In, boy; go first. — You houseless poverty — Nay, get thee in. I'll pray and then I'll sleep. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just. (3.4.26-36) At this crucial moment,... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 532 pages
...he explains, "I'll pray, and then I'll sleep." This is his prayer: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm....Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the Heavens more just. (28-36) On the face of it, this... | |
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