Lear. The usurer hangs the cozener.
Through tatter’d clothes great vices do appear;
Robes and furr’d gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw does pierce it.
None does offend, none, I say, none; I’ll able ’em;
Take that of me, my friend, who have the power
To seal th’ accuser’s lips. Get thee glass eyes.
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not.—Now, now, now, now.
Pull off my boots; harder, harder, so.
Edgar. [Aside] Oh, matter and impertinency mix’d!
Reason in madness!
Lear. If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.
I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester.
Thou must be patient; we came crying hither.
Thou know’st, the first time that we smell the air,
We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee ; mark.
Gloucester. Alack, alack the day!
Lear. When we are born, we ,cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
The Tragedy of King Lear, IV.vi.
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