Note to King Lear, 1.4.268-269: "Which, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature / From the fix'd place"


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Act 1, Scene 4, line 268
The "engine" that Lear has in mind is the torture device known as "the rack," which was built to wrench a person's body ["frame of nature"] from its natural shape, its "fix'd place."