Charles Kean [1858], Shakespeare's tragedy of King Lear, arranged for representation at the Princess's Theatre, with historical and explanatory notes, by Charles Kean, F.S.A. as first performed on Saturday, April 17, 1858 (Printed by John K. Chapman and Co. [etc.], London) [word count] [S31100].
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Scene III.
—A ROOM IN GLOSTER'S CASTLE.
Enter Gloster and Edmund.
Glo.
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.
Edm.
Most savage and unnatural.
Glo.
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
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lock'd the letter in my closet: these injuries the king now
bears will be revenged home; there is part of a power
already footed:17 note 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 threaten'd me, the king my old master must be
relieved. There is some strange thing toward, Edmund;
pray you, be careful.
[Exit.
Edm.
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.
Charles Kean [1858], Shakespeare's tragedy of King Lear, arranged for representation at the Princess's Theatre, with historical and explanatory notes, by Charles Kean, F.S.A. as first performed on Saturday, April 17, 1858 (Printed by John K. Chapman and Co. [etc.], London) [word count] [S31100].
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