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“Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?”
Provenance
- Source:
- King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- adb139bd90b67098b18c76c1adb3c90e338b33e8b90b0263c11b8936267a9d3e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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