The Tragedy of King Lear: ACT IV
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV SCENE I. The heath. SCENE II. Before ALBANY's palace. SCENE III. The French camp near Dover. SCENE IV. The same. A tent. SCENE V. Gloucester's castle. SCENE VI. Fields near Dover. SCENE VII. A tent in the French camp. LEAR on a bed asleep, soft music playing; Gentleman, and others attending. 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 V. Gloucester's castle. Enter REGAN and OSWALD REGAN       But are my brother's powers set forth? OSWALD       Ay, madam. REGAN       Himself in person there? OSWALD       Madam, with much ado: 5     Your sister is the better soldier. REGAN       Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home? OSWALD       No, madam. REGAN       What might import my sister's letter to him? OSWALD       I know not, lady. REGAN 10    'Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter.       It was great ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out,       To let him live: where he arrives he moves       All hearts against us: Edmund, I think, is gone,       In pity of his misery, to dispatch 15    His nighted life: moreover, to descry       The strength o' the enemy. OSWALD       I must needs after him, madam, with my letter. REGAN       Our troops set forth to-morrow: stay with us;       The ways are dangerous. OSWALD 20    I may not, madam:       My lady charged my duty in this business. REGAN       Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you       Transport her purposes by word? Belike,       Something--I know not what: I'll love thee much, 25    Let me unseal the letter. OSWALD       Madam, I had rather-- REGAN       I know your lady does not love her husband;       I am sure of that: and at her late being here       She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks 30    To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom. OSWALD       I, madam? REGAN       I speak in understanding; you are; I know't:       Therefore I do advise you, take this note:       My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk'd; 35    And more convenient is he for my hand       Than for your lady's: you may gather more.       If you do find him, pray you, give him this;       And when your mistress hears thus much from you,       I pray, desire her call her wisdom to her. 40    So, fare you well.       If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,       Preferment falls on him that cuts him off. OSWALD       Would I could meet him, madam! I should show       What party I do follow. REGAN 45    Fare thee well. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene