ABSTRACT
When on the heath, in act 4 scene 3, Lear first encounters Poor Tom, the king at once cries out at the sight of this piteous naked madman: ‘Didst thou give all to thy daughters? And art thou come to this?’ That is to say: gave all as I did, and came to this, like me. And then again he exclaims: ‘What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?’ and finally: ‘Nothing could have subdued nature / To such a lowness but his unkind daughters’.
