 Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.  The London Magazine - Page 801824Full view - About this book
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...same state of unprotected, elemental humanity: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha, here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1998 - 390 pages
...lines mad ranting: Thou wert better in a grave than to answer with thy uncover'd body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him...sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha? here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,... | |
 | Judy Kronenfeld - 1998 - 404 pages
...'He that careth not for his own is worse than an infidel' " (LEP, 1.10.2, in Works, 1:241). To owe "the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume," as Lear ironically asserts while tearing off his clothes (3.4.104-5), is to be reduced to piteous extremity,... | |
 | Craig Kallendorf - 1999 - 276 pages
...[Storm still Lear. Thou wert better in a grave than to answer with thy uncover'd body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him...sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 196 pages
...still. 102 LEAR Thou wert better in a grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him...no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the 106 cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated. 107 Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated... | |
 | Anne Waldron Neumann - 1999 - 196 pages
...understands, though nearly mad, that his own clothes are mere 'lendings'. Edgar, in contrast, owes 'the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool ... Thou art the thing itself: unacommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare forked animal' (3.4.108-13).... | |
 | R. A. Foakes - 2000 - 332 pages
...us, and under their spoils of wool, of hair, of feathers, and of silk to shroud us.7 Compare Lear: "Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou...sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha? Here's three on's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 324 pages
...with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. 105 Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the...sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 334 pages
...uncovered body this extremity of the skies . Is man no more but this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume . Here ' s three on ' s are sophisticated ; 95 thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated man is no... | |
 | Ann Rosalind Jones, Peter Stallybrass - 2000 - 388 pages
...sense of clothes as stolen when, using Tom o' Bedlam as his model, he strips himself on the heath: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the Worme no Silke; the Beast, no Hide; the Sheepe, no Wooll: the cat, no perfume . . . Off, off you Lendings.42... | |
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