SCENE X.
Changes to Glo'ster's Castle.
Enter Cornwall, Regan, Gonerill, Edmund, and Servants.
Corn.
Post speedily to my lord your husband,
shew him this letter; the army of France is
landed; seek out the traitor Glo'ster.
Reg.
Hang him instantly.
Gon.
Pluck out his eyes.
Corn.
Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep
you our sister company; the revenges we are bound to
take upon your traiterous father, are not fit for your
beholding. Advise the Duke, where you are going,
to a most festinate preparation; we are bound to the
like. Our Posts shall be swift, and intelligent betwixt
us. Farewel, dear sister; farewel, my lord of Glo'ster.
Enter Steward.
How now? where's the King?
Stew.
My lord of Glo'ster hath convey'd him hence.
Some five or six and thirty of his Knights,
Hot Questrists after him, met him at gate;
Who with some other of the Lords dependants,
Are gone with him tow'rd Dover; where they boast
To have well-armed friends.
Corn.
Get horses for your mistress.
Gon.
Farewel, sweet lord, and sister.
[Exeunt Gon. and Edm.
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Corn.
Edmund, farewel:—go seek the traitor Glo'ster;
Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us:
Though well we may not pass upon his life
Without the form of justice; yet our pow'r
Shall do a court'sie to our wrath, which men
May blame, but not controul.
Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
