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At the beginning of Act IV of Shakespeare's King Lear, Edgar congratulates himself on the fact that, reduced to beggary, there is nothing worse that can happen to him. The discovery a few minutes later that his father has been blinded, ruined and cast out quickly disabuses him of such a foolish notion and, enlightened as to the true nature of this uncertain world, he says
Who is't can say I am at the worst?...The
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