Gloster.

Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural dealing. When I desired 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 him, nor any way sustain him.

Edmund.

Most savage, and unnatural!

Gloster.

Go to; say you nothing. There is division between 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 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 the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived. If he ask for me, I am ill, and gone to bed. If I die for it, as no less is threatened me, the king my old master must be relieved. Edmund; pray you, be careful.

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. Exit, R.

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