| ACT III SCENE V | Gloucester's castle. | |
| [Enter CORNWALL and EDMUND] |
| CORNWALL | I will have my revenge ere I depart his house. |
| EDMUND | How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus |
| gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think |
| of. |
| CORNWALL | I now perceive, it was not altogether your | 5 |
| brother's evil disposition made him seek his death; |
| but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reprovable |
| badness in himself. |
| EDMUND | How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to |
| be just! This is the letter he spoke of, which | 10 |
| approves him an intelligent party to the advantages |
| of France: O heavens! that this treason were not, |
| or not I the detector! |
| CORNWALL | o with me to the duchess. |
| EDMUND | If the matter of this paper be certain, you have | 15 |
| mighty business in hand. |
| CORNWALL | True or false, it hath made thee earl of |
| Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he |
| may be ready for our apprehension. |
| EDMUND | [Aside] If I find him comforting the king, it will
| 20 |
| stuff his suspicion more fully.--I will persevere in |
| my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore |
| between that and my blood. |
| CORNWALL | I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a |
| dearer father in my love. | 25 |
| [Exeunt] |
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