...ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha? Here's three on's us are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated...art. Off, off, you lendings: come, unbutton here. (3.4.101-7) Lear's own experience of acute physical discomfort also brings about, probably for the...

...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...thou art. Off, off you lendings! Come; unbutton here. The form of the statement "is no more than" is familiar from Hobbes, and often occurs in the statement...

..."uncover'd body," the naked Edgar, the irreducible truth of all truths, the bare material reality of life: "thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is...art. Off, off, you lendings! Come; unbutton here" (III, iv, 104- 107). The body is nothing but the place where Lear can observe all the hypocrisy, vice...

...understands, is nothing outside of this context of human relationships. "Is man no more than this?" he asks. 'Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is...but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art." Lear's rapacious daughters are usually seen as unnatural ingrates and Lear their fond but foolish victim....

...Commentary Addressing Edgar, living in a cave like a wild beast, King Lear in Shakespeare's play exclaims: 'Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is...but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.' In context, the words are a moving statement about Views and voices - 5 Bound up in difference The...

...Edgar disguised as Tom O'Bedlam. Lear listens to Tom's tale of woe and is forced into the confession: "Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is...more but such a poor. bare. forked animal as thou art."18 Following the confession. Lear tears at his clothes. stripping himself of the vestiges of difference....

...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, 115. leadings: ie, clothes 117. naughty: wicked 118. wild: uncultivated 120. on 's: ie, of his 122....

...the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, 100 the cat no perfume. Ha! Here's three on's are sophisticated: thou art the thing itself. Unaccommodated...art. Off, off, you lendings! Come, unbutton here! [strives to tear off his clothes FOOL Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night to swim in!...

...Modern Language Association, XLII ( 1 927), 673-685. Lear. Thou wert better in a grave . . . . . . thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no...thou art. Off, off you lendings! Come, unbutton here ! [SD Strives to tear off his clothes] Lear's prose following upon Edgar's ditty is both startling...

...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...forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! (Ill.iv.ioy-iz) This is the lowest point of delusion that Lear reaches, as he tries to tear off his...