| ACT III SCENE III | Gloucester's castle. | |
| [Enter GLOUCESTER and EDMUND] |
| GLOUCESTER | Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural |
| dealing. When I desire their leave that I might |
| pity him, they took from me the use of mine own |
| house; charged me, on pain of their perpetual |
| displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for | 5 |
| him, nor any way sustain him. |
| EDMUND | Most savage and unnatural! |
| GLOUCESTER | Go to; say you nothing. There's a division betwixt |
| the dukes; and a worse matter than that: I have |
| received a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be | 10 |
| spoken; I have locked the letter in my closet: |
| these injuries the king now bears will be revenged |
| home; there's part of a power already footed: we |
| must incline to the king. I will seek him, and |
| privily relieve him: go you and maintain talk with | 15 |
| the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived: |
| if he ask for me. I am ill, and gone to bed. |
| Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me, |
| the king my old master must be relieved. There is |
| some strange thing toward, Edmund; pray you, be careful. | 20 |
| [Exit] |
| EDMUND | This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke |
| Instantly know; and of that letter too: |
| This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me |
| That which my father loses; no less than all: |
| The younger rises when the old doth fall. | 25 |
| [Exit] |
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