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" 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... "
On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes ... - Page 300
by Charles Bucke - 1841 - 329 pages
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 676 pages
...But for true need, — You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need ! I You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age ; wretched in both. 270 If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear...
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The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy

James C. Bulman - Drama - 1985 - 276 pages
...type still lives in threats that would do credit to Atreus himself. Lear begins: 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 much To bear it tamely; touch me...
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Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early ...

Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - History - 1986 - 464 pages
...and bone of Lear's shame at being reduced to an impotence he considers womanish: 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 much To bear it tamely; touch me...
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King Lear and the Gods

William R. Elton - Drama - 1980 - 388 pages
...ill-starred, Of Zeus the enemy, hated of all (pp. 30o-301 ) somewhat as Lear complains, You see me here, you Gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! (1I.^.274-275) and later, "here I stand, your slave, / A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man"...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1994 - 176 pages
...warm. But for true need — You heavens, give me 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 much 270 To bear it tamely; touch...
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The First Quarto of King Lear

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 160 pages
...You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need. You see me here, you gods, a poor old fellow, 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 mutfh 245 To bear it tamely. Touch...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1995 - 136 pages
...what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true 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 much To bear it tamely; touch me...
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Elizabethan Theater: Essays in Honor of S. Schoenbaum

R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...realize more fully when both Regan and Goneril join to strip him of his retainers: You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. (2.4.272-73) If Lear in his natural body is "a poor old man," at the same time he remains the king,...
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The Adventures of a Shakespeare Scholar: To Discover Shakespeare ..., Volume 10

Marvin Rosenberg - Dramatists, English - 1997 - 380 pages
...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 much To bear it tamely; touch me...
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The Pilgrim Self: Traveling the Path from Life to Life

Robert S. Ellwood - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 182 pages
...inside. It is the debilitating selfpity of Shakespeare's King Lear, as he cries, "You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both ... A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man . . . unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor,...
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