...after his wits begin to turn consists of a prayer to houseless poverty: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,...

...when they reach the hovel and Kent begs him to enter, the King says: Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,...as these? O! I have ta'en Too little care of this. (Ill, 4, 28-33) But the effect of the storm on Lear is perhaps brought home to us more intimately in...

...the world around, when wickedness's plain face is seen, and nature trembles without him and within: "Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...these? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,...

...alone outside the hovel, his concern for the Fool now embraces, universally, the wretched of the earth: Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care...

...tables, My tables-meet it is I set it down That one may smile and smile and be a villain. (I, 5, 107ff.) Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide...How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en Too little care...