SCENE IV.
An apartment in Glo'ster's castle.
Enter Glo'ster and Bastard.
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, charg'd
me on pain of perpetual displeasure, neither to speak of him,
entreat for him, or any way sustain him.
Bast.
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 lock'd the
letter in my closet: these injuries the King now bears will be revenged
home; there is part of a power already, c notelanded; we must
incline to the King, I will look for him, and privily relieve him;
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go you and maintain talk with the Duke, that my charity be not
of him perceiv'd; if he ask for me, I am ill, and gone to bed;
if I die for it, as no less is threatned me, the King my old master
must be relieved. There are strange things toward, Edmund,
pray you be careful.
[Exit.
Bast.
This courtesie 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.
George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
