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READ STUDY GUIDE: Act III, scenes iv–v

Act III, Scene v:
A Room in Gloster's Castle.
 
[Enter Cornwall and Edmund.]
Corn.:
I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
Edm.:
How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to
loyalty, something fears me to think of.
Corn.:
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 reproveable badness in himself.
Edm.:
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!
Corn.:
Go with me to the duchess.
Edm.:
If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty business
in hand.
Corn.:
True or false, it hath made thee earl of Gloster. Seek out
where thy father is, that he may be ready for our apprehension.
Edm.:
[Aside.] If I find him comforting the king, it will stuff his
suspicion more fully.—I will persever in my course of loyalty,
though the conflict be sore between that and my blood.
Corn.:
I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a dearer father
in my love.
[Exeunt.]
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