 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 - Page 74by William Shakespeare - 1804Full view - About this book
 | John Milton Yinger - 1994 - 512 pages
...as he looked out at a group of beggars caught in a raging storm: Poor naked wretches, where so e'er you are That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? — King Lear to the fool, Act II, iv How indeed? How do the poor defend themselves from seasons such... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - 1995 - 279 pages
...hierarchy. 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...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,... | |
 | Hugh Grady - 1996 - 270 pages
...realizations take on generalizing and critical power: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are. That hide the pelting of this pitiless storm. How shall your...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,... | |
 | John M. Dunaway, Eric O. Springsted - 1996 - 260 pages
...Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are That bid the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your...these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just. (3.4.26-36)'... | |
 | Charles Olson - 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...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... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 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...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... | |
 | Harry Berger, Peter Erickson - 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....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,... | |
 | Nicholas Roe - 1998 - 344 pages
...identification with 'houseless poverty' against injustice and arbitrary power: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are. That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? (1n. iv. 28-32) It is the thought of a pitiless, famishing season such as this that the milder, fruited... | |
 | Andrew Wachtel - 1998 - 328 pages
..."Lir" — that is, Shakespeare's King Lear. The line occurs in Act III, scene 4 of the tragedy: [LEAR] 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,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - 1998 - 390 pages
...Nay, get thee in; I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bid the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your...these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. (3.4.19-34) Here you have the power to strike... | |
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