King Lear

Explain the following lines from King Lear Rive your concealing continents and cry These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man More sinn’d against than sinning.

Explain the following lines from King Lear
Rive your concealing continents and cry
These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man
More sinn’d against than sinning.

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Lear is not doing too well when he says this. Everything has gone downhill for him. The guy has no friends and he is wandering around a heath in the middle of a thunderstorm. Lear tries to drown out the thunder with his declaration of the world's sins against him.