| ACT III 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. | 5 |
| 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 | 10 |
| | 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. | 15 |
| 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. | 20 |
| EDMUND | Aside | |
| | 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. | 25 |
| | Exeunt | |
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