Glou.

Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural dealing. When I desired their leave that I might pity him, they took ^note from me the use of mine own house; charged me, on pain of their perpetual ^note displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for him, nor ^note any way sustain him.

Edm.

Most savage and ^note unnatural!

Glou.

Go to; say you nothing. There's a ^note division betwixt ^note the dukes, and a worse matter than that: I have received a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be spoken; I have locked the letter in my closet: these injuries the king now bears will be revenged home; there is ^note part of a power already footed ^note: we must incline to the king. I will seek ^note him and privily relieve him: go you, and maintain talk with the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived: if he ask for me, I am ill and gone to bed. Though ^note I die for it ^note, as no less is threatened me, the king my old master must be relieved. There is some strange thing ^note toward, Edmund; pray you, be careful. ^note

Edm.
This courtesy, forbid thee, ^note shall the duke

Instantly know, and of that letter too:
This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me ^note
That which my father loses ^note; no less than all:
The ^note younger rises when the old doth ^note fall. ^note [Exit. ^note

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