History & The Arts
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
...changed and self-cover'd thing, for shame," continues the Duke: "Be-monster not thy feature. Were't my fitness To let these hands obey my blood, They are apt enough to dislocate and tear Thy flesh and bones; howe'er thou art a fiend, A woman's shape doth shield thee." After this a messenger enters, and announces that the Duke of Cornwall, wounded by his servant whilst...