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King Lear: Act 3 Scene 5
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- [Exeunt]
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