LEAR O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars468 Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not470 nature more than nature needs, Man’s life is cheap as beast’s. Thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous472, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear’st473, 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 man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters’ hearts Against their father, fool me not so much479 To bear it tamely: touch me with noble
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