TPTT 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
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SCENE V. Gloucester's castle.
Enter CORNWALL and EDMUND
CORNWALL
      I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
EDMUND
      How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus
      gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think
      of.
CORNWALL
5     I now perceive, it was not altogether your
      brother's evil disposition made him seek his death;
      but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reprovable
      badness in himself.
EDMUND
      How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to
10    be just! This is the letter he spoke of, which
      approves him an intelligent party to the advantages
      of France: O heavens! that this treason were not,
      or not I the detector!
CORNWALL
      o with me to the duchess.
EDMUND
15    If the matter of this paper be certain, you have
      mighty business in hand.
CORNWALL
      True or false, it hath made thee earl of
      Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he
      may be ready for our apprehension.
EDMUND
20    (Aside) If I find him comforting the king, it will
      stuff his suspicion more fully.--I will persevere in
      my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore
      between that and my blood.
CORNWALL
      I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a
25    dearer father in my love.
Exeunt
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