Lear, March 15, 1776 (originally published); published 1809. 'Here I stand your Slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man, but yet I call you servile ministers, that have with two pernicious daughters join'd your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head, so old and white as this, oh! oh! 'tis foul'. (King Lear, Act III, Scene 3).

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