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.]