All through the five acts he played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Source: On Creston Clarke's performance of King Lear in Denver c. 1880; in The Portable Woollcott, Capsule Criticism, by Alexander Woollcott, 1946).
-- Eugene Field, (Sep 2 1850-1895), US poet, journalist; He is best known for his children's poems.