If that the heavens do not their visible spirits
Send quickly down to tame these vile offenses,
It will come:
Humanity must perforce prey on itself,
Like monsters of the deep.
– William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act 4, Scene 2. Albany uses another animal simile to compare Goneril and Regan to "monsters of the deep." He says that if the heavens don’t send down avenging spirits to punish their terrible crimes, the end will come. Human beings will destroy each other like monsters from the deep.