King Lear’s derogatory outbursts

“Beneath is all the fiends’. There’s hell, there’s darkness, there’s the sulfurous pit – burning, scalding stench, consumption!” (Act IV, Scene VI)

“But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter – or rather a disease that’s in my flesh, which I must needs call mine. Thou art a boil, a plaguesore, an embossed carbuncle, in my corrupted blood.”

(Act II, Scene IV)