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Quotation from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
“by the help of sleep and medicine, she and her physicians at length succeeded in winding up the untuned and jarring senses which the cruelty of his other daughters had so violently shaken.”
Tales from Shakespeare, King Lear, after the storm (Project Gutenberg text)
Cordelia's physicians treat the mad king before he is allowed to see her.
Citation: "by the help of sleep and medicine, she and her physicians at length succeeded in winding up the untuned and jarring senses which the cruelty of his other daughters had so violently shaken." — Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare, King Lear, after the storm (Project Gutenberg text). (id tales-from-shakespeare-q6)
Portrait: Tales from Shakspeare (1831) title page, William Harvey, Public domain.
