The Tragedy of King Lear: ACT III
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III SCENE I. A heath. SCENE II. Another part of the heath. Storm still. SCENE III. Gloucester's castle. SCENE IV. The heath. Before a hovel. SCENE V. Gloucester's castle. SCENE VI. A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle. SCENE VII. Gloucester's castle. ACT IV ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE III. Gloucester's castle. Enter GLOUCESTER and EDMUND GLOUCESTER       Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural       dealing. When I desire their leave that I might       pity him, they took from me the use of mine own       house; charged me, on pain of their perpetual 5     displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for       him, nor any way sustain him. EDMUND       Most savage and unnatural! GLOUCESTER       Go to; say you nothing. There's a division betwixt       the dukes; and a worse matter than that: I have 10    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's part of a power already footed: we       must incline to the king. I will seek him, and 15    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 I die for it, as no less is threatened me,       the king my old master must be relieved. There is 20    some strange thing toward, Edmund; pray you, be careful. Exit 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: 25    The younger rises when the old doth fall. Exit Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene