"An Elderly Man With a Poor Memory"

...who ain't getting any younger

Ian McKellen as King Lear

In Act IV, Scene 7, King Lear pleads with his daughter, Cordelia, saying:

Pray, do not mock me.
I am a very foolish fond old man,
Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;

And, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

At least the 80+ year-old king was being honest.

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