 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,...  Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King Lear - Page 400by William Shakespeare - 1811Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 346 pages
...five, To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command, to tend you ? Reg. What need one ? Lear. O, reason not the need : our basest beggars...what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need! You see me here,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...basest beggari Are in the poorest thing superfluous : Allow not nature more thau nature needs, Mao's life is cheap as beast's : thou art a lady ; If only...thou gorgeous wear'st ; Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need — — You heavens, give me that patience which I need ! You see me here,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 520 pages
...or five, To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you ? REG. What need one ? LEAR. O, reason not the need : our basest beggars...Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, ' Those WICKED creatures yet do look well-favour'd, When others are more WICKED ;] A similar thought... | |
 | 1821 - 770 pages
...make Lear reply to his daughters^ who had been speaking in the true spirit of modern improvements: " O reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in the...nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap an beasts!" There are many other painful instances in these times of that " restless wisdom" which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 414 pages
...:—I'll go with thee ; Thy fifty doth yet double five and twenty, [To Go.v And thou art twice her love. Lear. O, reason not the need : our basest beggars...wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.—But, for true need,— You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need ! You see me here, you gods, a poor old... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...or five, To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you ? Reg. What need one ? Lear. O, reason not the need : our basest beggars...what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need ! You see me... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 490 pages
...To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you :' Reg. What need one ? t,nn . O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in...what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need ' You see me... | |
 | Luigi Cornaro - 1823 - 160 pages
...repletion. Dr. CA«yiie, p. 35. OUR immortal bard, in Lear, shews that the necessaries of life are few : T O ! reason, not the need : our basest beggars Are...nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beasts. THE greatest errors committed in diet are not in the quality but quantity of food. It is surprising,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...Since. To follow in a house, where twice so many Have a command to tend you ? Reg. - What need one ? Lear. O, reason not the need : our basest beggars...what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. — But, for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need ! You see me... | |
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