Date:1581
Description:Charity: feeding the poor in Shakespeare's time. All communities had their share of the poor and Elizabethans would regularly offer their unwanted ‘left-over’ food to those less fortunate than themselves. The dissolution of the English monasteries in the time of Henry VIII led eventually to the Poor Relief Act of 1601, to assist the needy poor. In King Lear Edgar chooses to become Poor Tom, a beggar, to escape recognition and the notice of the nobles of the court: He cries ‘Do Poor Tom some charity, whom the foul fiend vexes’ King Lear, 3,4, line 57. Full title: Richard Day, A Booke of Christian Prayers collected out of the auncient writers and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with earnest mynde of all Christians in these daungerous and troublesome dayes', London, John Daye, 1581.
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