The Tragedy Of King Lear

1 Enter Cornwall and Edmund.
2 CORNWALL.
3 I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
4 EDMUND.
5 How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to
6 loyalty, something fears me to think of.
7 CORNWALL.
8 I now perceive it was not altogether your brother’s evil
9 disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit, set
10 a-work by a reproveable badness in himself.
11 EDMUND.
12 How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to be just! This
13 is the letter he spoke of, which approves him an intelligent
14 party to the advantages of France. O heavens! that this treason
15 were not; or not I the detector!
16 CORNWALL.
17 Go with me to the Duchess.
18 EDMUND.
19 If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty business
20 in hand.
21 CORNWALL.
22 True or false, it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester. Seek out
23 where thy father is, that he may be ready for our apprehension.
24 EDMUND.
25 [_Aside._] If I find him comforting the King, it will stuff his
26 suspicion more fully. I will persever in my course of loyalty,
27 though the conflict be sore between that and my blood.
28 CORNWALL.
29 I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a dearer father
30 in my love.
31 [_Exeunt._]