William Dyce, King Lear and the Fool in the Storm (c. 1851)
Oil on canvas, size approximately 53 x 68 inches, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
Act III. Scene II.
Another Part of the Heath. Storm still. | |
Enter LEAR and Fool. | |
| Lear. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! | |
| You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout | 4 |
| Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks! | |
| You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, | |
| Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, | |
| Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, | 8 |
| Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world! | |
| Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once | |
| That make ingrateful man! | |
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