Shakespeare - First Folio facsimile (1910)/The Tragedy of King Lear/Act 3 Scene 5
Scena Quinta.
Enter Cornwall, and Edmund.
Corn.
I will haue my reuenge, ere I depart his house.
Bast.
How my Lord, I may be censured, that Nature thus giues way to Loyaltie, something feares mee to thinke of.
Cornw.
I now perceiue, it was not altogether your Brothers euill disposition made him seeke his death: but a prouoking merit set a‐worke by a reprouable badnesse in himself.
Bast.
How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to be iust? This is the Letter which hee spoake of; which approues him an intelligent partie to the aduantages of France. O Heauens! that this Treason were not; or not I the detector.
Corn.
Go with me to the Dutchesse.
Bast.
If the matter of this Paper be certain, you haue mighty businesse in hand.
Corn.
True or false, it hath made thee Earle of Gloucester: seeke out where thy Father is, that hee may bee ready for our apprehension.
Bast.
If I finde him comforting the King, it will stuffe his suspition more fully. I will perseuer in my course of Loyalty, though the conflict be sore betweene that, and my blood.
Corn.
I will lay trust vpon thee: and thou shalt finde a deere Father in my loue.Exeunt.