O heavens,
If you do love old men, if your sweet sway
Show obedience, if you yourselves are old,
Make it your cause. Send down, and take my part.
– William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act 2, Scene 4. After being mistreated by unkindness and ungrateful daughters, Lear look up to the heavens and appeals to the gods to take his side and send down some help.