these texts feed me; they seldom fail to surprise
Wisdom 7.3
'When I was born, I received the common air, and fell upon the earth, which of like nature, crying and weeping at the first as all other do'.
Florio's Montaigne I.107
'So wept we, and so much did it cost us to enter into this life'.
Proverb
'We weeping come into the world, and weeping hence we go'.
King Lear IV.v.176-178
'Thou must be patient; we came crying hither:
Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air
We wawl and cry'.
A Jovial Crew III.i.34-38
'... this is your birthnight into a new world.
And we all know (or have been told) that all come crying
into the world, when the whole world of pleasures is before
us. The world itself had ne'er been glorious, had it not
first been a confused chaos'.