Turns out the cave they were headed for is already occupied by Edgar. KENT What art thou that dost grumble there i’ th’ HelpįOOL A spirit, a spirit! He says his name’s Poor Tom.
Lear realizes he has not done enough for disadvantaged people, and swears he will try to assist them more in the future.ĮDGAR within Fathom and half, fathom and half!įOOL Come not in here, nuncle here’s a spirit. Lear orders his Fool and Kent to seek shelter and then, delivers a speech about the plight of homelessness, which he now experiences first hand. That thou may’st shake the superflux to them 40 Take physic, pomp.Įxpose thyself to feel what wretches feel, Your looped and windowed raggedness defend 35įrom seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are, In, boy go first.-You houseless poverty- 30 This tempest will not give me leave to ponder
He laments that his children are such ingrates but decides that it's best not to go there-dwelling on Goneril and Regan will make him go mad. Lear says the violent storm is nothing compared to the "tempest" in Lear's own mind. Your old kind father whose frank heart gave all! In such a night as this? O Regan, Goneril, Is it not as this mouth should tear this handįor lifting food to ’t? But I will punish home. This tempest in my mind 15ĭoth from my senses take all feeling else Thou ’dst shun a bear,īut if thy flight lay toward the roaring sea, Thou think’st ’tis much that this contentious stormīut where the greater malady is fixed, 10 Good my lord, enter.īack on the heath, Kent is still trying to get Lear out of the storm and into that cave, but Lear is resistant. The tyranny of the open night ’s too rough
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