...help if they were sick or pregnant or addicted, he thought often of the lines in which King Lear says, "Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, / That...raggedness, defend you / From seasons such as these?" He never forgot how once when he had used them in one of his readings at the Apollonian, some octogenarian...

...the majority of human beings — letters came with the terrible self-reproach of Lear upon the heath: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are. That bide...such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this!6 Much of the effort of the Society of Jesus — its college and university commitments, its literary...

...through right now. When he was in power he never noticed, but now he stretches his vision to take them in: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That...raggedness defend you From seasons such as these? O,I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,...

...Lear's wits begin to turn, and with this turning comes a new view: 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,...

...says little; to fear judgement; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish. Kent — Lear I.iv 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,...

...mental pain (in. iv. 24). Then again the cruel storm draws noble charity from Lear, replacing his ire: 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,...

...audience, not pushed to the verge but holding all the stage. He addresses the spectators in simple English: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...as these. O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! (3.4.24-33) These words involve everyone in the playhouse; the language is intelligible to all. The...

...and sudden way. Left to his own thoughts outside the hovel, he has uttered that memorable invocation: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! (1n, iv, 28-33) and he proceeds to the medieval doctrine, itself familiar from exposition in wall-paintings,...

...this passage, when put alongside that other passage in Lear to which its subject closely relates it— Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? 51 4-2 — is equally inferior in the placing of its terms. In Lear's way of saying these things,...

...had previously done and as Goneril and Regan still do. Outside the hovel on the heath, Lear reflects, Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From reasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to...