But with a little act upon the blood,
Burn like mines of sulphur.”
After Othello kills Desdemona, he calls all the vengeance of heaven down on his head. He says:
“Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur!
Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!
King Lear speaks of a
——“sulphurous pit, burning, scalding—stench.”
In the Tempest, Ariel, when he bothers the enemies of Prospero on their ship, shows them
——“the fire and cracks
Of sulphurous roaring.”