Today’s Totally Random
Lines
There is no malice in this burning coal;
The breath of heaven hath blown his spirit
out,
And strew’d repentant ashes on his head.
Arthur
King John
Act IV,
Scene i, Line 110
Arthur, a child, is talking to Hubert de Burgh. The latter has been sent to burn Arthur’s eyes out. The former is doing his best to talk Huburt out of doing it. Arthur has noted that the fire has gone out and that the red hot poker in Huburt's hand is now cold. Huburt replies that he can heat it. No, says Arthur,
No, in good sooth; the fire is dead with grief,
Being
create for comfort, to be used
In
undeserved extrement: see else yourself;
There is no malice in this burning coal;
The breath of heaven hath blown his
spirit out,
And strew’d repentant ashes on his head.
Arthur is giving
quite a bit of life and conscience to the fire. Will is great at doing that:
giving life to inanimate objects. As usual, he does it with some really great language. Again, the poet playwright.
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