Some have too much, yet still do crave;

I little have, and seek no more:

They are but poor, though much they have,

And I am rich with little store:

They poor, I rich; they beg, I give;

They lack, I have; they pine, I live.

Edward Dyer (Circa 1540-1607): MS. Rawl. 85, p. 17.

And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.

'T is lack of kindly warmth.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Timon of Athens. Act ii. Sc. 2.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,

And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnet xxx.

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

And then he drew a dial from his poke,

And looking on it with lack-lustre eye,

Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock:

Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.