Heavens, deal so still:
Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man,
That slaves your ordinance, that will not see
Because he does not feel, feel your power quickly.
So distribution should undo excess
And each man have enough.
– William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act 4, Scene 1. Here Gloucester gives the disguised Edgar a purse as he speaks about the redistribution of wealth and justice for the poor. Gloucester talks about the spoiled and gluttonous man who has everything but can’t see the misery around him because he doesn’t feel it himself. He should be made feel the anger of the gods, he says, so that excess wealth would be redistributed until everyone has enough to live on.