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Quotation from Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
“These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent”
Henry VI, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 5 (Project Gutenberg #1500 (First Folio-based modern-spelling text))
The old prisoner, carried in a chair, catalogues his failing body before passing his claim to Richard; it is the play's most sustained picture of age and dying.
Citation: "These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent" — William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 5 (Project Gutenberg #1500 (First Folio-based modern-spelling text)). (id henry-vi-part-1-q5)
