Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Lea. Stands in some ranke of praise, Ile go with thee,
Lea. Thy fifty yet doth double fiue and twenty,
Lea. And thou art twice her Loue.
Gon. Gon.
Gon. Heare me my Lord;
Gon. What need you fiue and twenty? Ten? Or fiue?
Gon. To follow in a house, where twice so many
Gon. Haue a command to tend you?
Reg. Reg.
Reg. What need one?
Lear. Lear.
Lear. O reason not the need: our basest Beggers
Lear. Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Lear. Allow not Nature, more then Nature needs:
Lear. Mans life is cheape as Beastes. Thou art a Lady;
Lear. If onely to go warme were gorgeous,
Lear. Why Nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,
Lear. Which scarcely keepes thee warme, but for true need:
Lear. You Heauens, giue me that patience, patience I need,
Lear. You see me heere (you Gods) a poore old man,