READ STUDY GUIDE: Act III, scenes iv–v |
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Act III, Scene v:
A Room in Gloster's Castle.
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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