The Tragedy Of King Lear

1 Enter Gloucester and Edmund.
2 GLOUCESTER.
3 Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural dealing. When I
4 desired their leave that I might pity him, they took from me the
5 use of mine own house; charged me on pain of perpetual displeasure,
6 neither to speak of him, entreat for him, or any way sustain him.
7 EDMUND.
8 Most savage and unnatural!
9 GLOUCESTER.
10 Go to; say you nothing. There is division between the Dukes,
11 and a worse matter than that: I have received a letter this
12 night;—’tis dangerous to be spoken;—I have locked the letter
13 in my closet: these injuries the King now bears will be revenged
14 home; there’s part of a power already footed: we must incline to
15 the King. I will look him, and privily relieve him: go you and
16 maintain talk with the Duke, that my charity be not of him
17 perceived: if he ask for me, I am ill, and gone to bed. If I
18 die for it, as no less is threatened me, the King my old master
19 must be relieved. There is some strange thing toward, Edmund;
20 pray you be careful.
21 [_Exit._]
22 EDMUND.
23 This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the Duke
24 Instantly know; and of that letter too.
25 This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me
26 That which my father loses, no less than all:
27 The younger rises when the old doth fall.
28 [_Exit._]