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KING LEAR 3.5
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| | [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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