What comfort

    What comfort to this great decay may come
    Shall be applied .. 
    All friends shall taste
    The wages of their virtue, and all foes
    The cup of their deservings. O see, see!

  

















William Shakespeare
King Lear
  v, iii
ca 1606
George Ian Duthie
John Dover Wilson
  editors
The New Shakespeare
Cambridge University Press, 1960©


Don Ryan
Oregon coast
undated