"Fortunately, the beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tales, than devouring me alive; but they would suffer no resurrection, and I was forced to lie till their malignant masters pleased to deliver me: then, hatless and trembling with wrath, I ordered the miscreants to let me out - on their peril to keep me one minute longer - with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear."
Here there is an allusion to King Lear made. Because King Lear gives a big speech about "retaliating" and seeking revenge on his daughters and Mr. Lockwood is relating the dogs' masters to King Lear by pointing out how they are trying to get revenge on him.
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