...assumptions are often projected on to 'the gods'. Let the great Gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd of Justice; hide dice, thou bloody hand, Thou perjur'd,...

...the thick rotundity o' the world!" I forgot all about the time, all about my unpreparedness. ". . . Let the great gods That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now." I read on. The boys listened attentively. I passed on to the next scene without knowing it. I could...

...is merely a reinforcement of Lear's speech in the storm, before he crossed the borders of madness : Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pother...out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand; Thou perjur'd,...

...down a judgment of the heavens upon the wicked. Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipt of justice! Hide thee, thou bloody hand; Thou perjur'd,...

...revengers and makes them as satiric as Timon's: Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd of justice! Hide thee, thou bloody hand, Thou perjur'd,...

...this function that the mad Lear hopefully alludes: Let the great Gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipp'd of Justice; hide thee, thou bloody hand, Thou perjur'd,...

...line as Ahab's "lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man," such lines of Lear as "Let the great gods, / That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, / Find out their enemies now" (IILii.49-50). Ahab's thought alters Lear's in specific ways that help define the difference between...

...an exorcism, with King Lear as its interpreter: Let the great gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipt of justice! (3.2.46-53) The trembling that Lear envisages,...

...41 makes] Q; make F 43 ne'er] Q, neuer F The affliction nor the force. LEAR Let the great gods, 45 That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, Find...out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice. Hide thee, thou bloody hand, Thou perjured...

...excessive love of justice drives him to near-frenzy: Let the great gods That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch That has within the three undivulged crimes Unwhipt of justice. (3.2.49-53) Yet such a proper concern for...