...consummation of his genius, has deep, far-reaching significance. "You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. . . . You are a spirit, I know. When did you die i" This scene — these words — give the key to...

...going on here and now in the body: 'she hath tied Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here'; 'Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound / Upon a...fire, that mine own tears | Do scald like molten lead '. In both, as also in the less vivid image of 'the tempest in my mind', the body is tied to what tortures...

...out of Lear's mouth upon awakening to see Cordelia would be: You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave: Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (4.7.44—47; emphasis mine) Even if we allow for a certain distracted irrationality in Lear's speech,...

...recovers his sanity after being reunited with his daughter LEAR You do me wrong to take me out o'th' grave: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. ( IV. vii) In radically transforming the source of King Lear, Shakespeare, one might say, stopped just...

...the belief that he has died and been reborn into an afterlife, and he talks about tears to Cordelia: Thou art a soul in bliss, but I am bound Upon a wheel...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (4.7.45-47) These are the tears of ashamed self-knowledge, manly tears caused by a realization of what...

..."almost" miracle (cf. II.ii. 165-1 66) of Cordelia's forgiveness: You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave; Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead, (IVvii.45-48) once again a syncretic image, which the New Arden editor annotates merely as Christian...

...rest of us, is strapped to the wheel and can say with King Lear: You do me wrong to take me out o th' grave. Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. FIVE AD2000: The Millennium Under New Management "Major fighting in Viet Nam will peter out about 1967;...

...and 'a very foolish fond old man'.38 There is certainly a humbled quality in his words to Cordelia: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel...of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.39 There is little more than that. Bradley thinks that Lear finds knowledge in his madness. Is...

...speaks. Ambiguity still: is this madness? Hallucination? Metaphor? You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave; Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead (45-48). Half-circle the wheel had come for the Lears who began titanic, tough, autocratic, tyrannically...

...tears are not salt water but a dangerous and destructive liquid. You do me wrong to take me out o' th' grave: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon...fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. (4.7.45-48). He associates tears, especially his own, to poison as he explicitly names Cordelia: Lear:...