All 4 Uses of
wretch
in
King Lear
- —[To France] For you, great king, I would not from your love make such a stray To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you To avert your liking a more worthier way Than on a wretch whom nature is asham'd Almost to acknowledge hers.†
Scene 1.1 *
- Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand; Thou perjur'd, and thou simular man of virtue That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake That under covert and convenient seeming Hast practis'd on man's life: close pent-up guilts, Rive your concealing continents, and cry These dreadful summoners grace.†
Scene 3.2
- The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst Owes nothing to thy blasts.†
Scene 4.1
- A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch, Past speaking of in a king!†
Scene 4.6
Definition:
someone you feel sorry for
or:
a person of bad character
or:
a person of bad character