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Act III, Scene 5
1Gloucester’scastle.
2Enter Cornwall and Edmund.
3CornwallI will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
4EdmundHow, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think of.
5CornwallI 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.
6EdmundHow malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to 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!
7CornwallGo with me to the duchess.
8EdmundIf the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty business in hand.
9CornwallTrue or false, it hath made thee earl of Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our apprehension.
10EdmundAside. 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.
11CornwallI will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love.
12Exeunt.