King Lear
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I'll go with thee.
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Thy fifty yet
doth double
five and twenty.

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And thou art
twice her love.

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Hear me, my lord.
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What need you
five and twenty,
ten, or five,

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to follow in a house
where twice so many have
a command to tend you?

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What need one?
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O, reason not the need!
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Our basest beggars are in
the poorest thing superfluous.

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Allow not nature more
than nature needs,

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man's life's as cheap as beast's.
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Thou art a lady;
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if only to go warm
were gorgeous,

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why, nature needs not
what thou gorgeous wear'st

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which scarcely
keeps thee warm.

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But for true need...
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O heavens,
give me patience.

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Patience I need.
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You see me here,
you gods,

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a poor old man,
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as full of grief as age;
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wretched in both.
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If it be you that stirs
these daughters' hearts

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against their father,
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fool me not so much
to bear it tamely;

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touch me with noble anger,
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and let not women's
weapons, water-drops,
stain my man's cheeks.

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No, you unnatural hags!
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I will have such revenges
on you both,

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that all the worid shall...

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