Both Uses of
breach
in
King Lear
- I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily: as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.†
Scene 1.2 *breaches = breaks or penetrates
- O you kind gods, Cure this great breach in his abused nature!†
Scene 4.7breach = break or penetrate
Definition:
break -- as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall