No seconds? All myself?
Why, this would make a man a man of salt,
To use his eyes for garden waterpots,
Ay, and laying autumn’s dust.
– William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6. Lear asks if he is all alone. Loneliness would make any man cry enough to water his garden with his tears, he admits. Back then crying was not seen as manly, men were not meant to express emotions. So Lear is revealing a feminine side to men by his admission that being alone would reduce him to tears.