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" 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 Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the ... - Page 402
by William Shakespeare - 1803
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Playing Lear

Oliver Ford Davies - 2003 - 224 pages
...others' comfort when he begs Kent and the Fool to take their ease in the hovel. This is a prelude to Poor, naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care...
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Paranoia & Contentment: A Personal Essay on Western Thought

John C. Hampsey - 2004 - 236 pages
...naked (both literally and figuratively), Lear is able to see in an off-track way unknown to him before: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,...
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Shakespeare's King Lear with The Tempest: The Discovery of Nature and the ...

Mark Allen McDonald - 2004 - 334 pages
...You houseless povertyNay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. Poor naked wretches, wherso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...these? O! I have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic, Pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,...
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

Susan Jacoby - 2004 - 433 pages
...— the soliloquy Lear delivers when, after raging on the heath, he stumbles on a place of shelter: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window 'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? Oh, I have ta'en Too little care of this!...
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In Praise of Wisdom: Literary and Theological Reflections on Faith and Reason

Kim Paffenroth - 2004 - 188 pages
...of his descent into madness and revelation, hints at serious problems in his reign and in his life: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care...
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White Gloves of the Doorman: The Works of Leon Rooke

Branko Gorjup - 2004 - 468 pages
...11. 10 Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (New York: Overhead Books, 1998), 731. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care...
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Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies

Piotr Sadowski - 2003 - 336 pages
...with his fellow sufferers the Fool, Kent, and Poor Tom, and by extension with all suffering humanity: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides. Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine - 2011 - 387 pages
...first. — You houseless poverty — 30 Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.] rFooP exits. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness defend 35 you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little...
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Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy

Irving Ribner - 2005 - 232 pages
...acknowledgement of God, and it is followed up by a welling up of pity for the sufferings of humanity : Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,...
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Separate Theaters: Bethlem ("Bedlam") Hospital and the Shakespearean Stage

Kenneth S. Jackson - 2005 - 324 pages
...at this point (3.4.23), and Lear makes his famous plea for charity. Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...these? O! I have ta'en Too little care of this. Take physic, Pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,...
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