The Tragedy of King Lear

William Shakespeare

You see how full of changes his age is; the observation we have made of it hath not been little: he always loved our sister most; and with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off appears too grossly.

Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance,
Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France:

Better thou
Hadst not been born than not to have pleas'd me better.