St. Peter’s Basilica Martini’s The Annunciation* Sunday Mass Lear’s Prayer Skeleton Growl and Smile *The painting entitled The Annunciation with Saint Margaret and Saint Ansanus now housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence*King *Lear, III, iv, 23-36: KENT Good my lord, enter here. LEAR Prithee, go in thyself. Seek thine own ease. This tempest will not give me leave to ponder On things would hurt me more. But I’ll go in.— In, boy; go first.—You houseless poverty— Nay, get thee in. I’ll pray, and then I’ll sleep. Fool exits. 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? O, I have ta’en Too little care of this. Take physic, pomp. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou may’st shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.
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