Reading The Tragedie of King Lear — William Shakespeare

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Edg.

Poore Tom, that eates the swimming Frog, the

Toad, the

Tod‐pole, the wall‐Neut, and the water: that

in the furie of his heart, when the foule Fiend rages,

eats

Cow‐dung for Sallets; swallowes the old Rat,

and the

ditch‐Dogge; drinkes the green Mantle of

the standing

Poole: who is whipt from Tything to

Tything, and

stockt, punish'd, and

imprison'd: who hath three Suites

to his backe, sixe

shirts to his body:

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