The Historie of King Lear.
¶Glost. O villaine, villaine, his very opinion in the let
410ter, ab-
horred villaine, vnnaturall dete
sted bruti
sh
¶villaine, wor
se then
bruti
sh, go
sir
seeke him, I
¶apprehend him, abhominable villaine
where is he?
¶Bast. I doe not well know my Lord, if it
shall plea
se you to
¶su
spend your indignation again
st my brother, til you can
415deriue
from him better te
stimony of this intent: you
should
¶run a cer-
taine cour
se, where if you violently proceed
¶again
st him, mi-
staking his purpo
se, it would make a great
¶gap in your owne
honour, &
shake in peeces the heart of
¶his obediẽce, I dare pawn
downe my life for him,
420he hath wrote this to feele my affection
to your honour, and
¶to no further pretence of danger.
¶Bast. If your honour iudge it meete, I will place you
¶where
you
shall heare vs conferre of this, and by an auri
425gular a
ssurance
haue your
sati
sfaction, and that without
¶any further delay then
this very euening.
¶Glost. He cannot be
such a mon
ster.
427.1Bast. Nor is not
sure.
¶Glost. To his father, that
so tenderly and intirely loues him,
¶heauen and earth
! Edmund seeke
¶him out, wind mee into him, I
pray you frame your bu
¶sines after your own wi
sedome, I would
vn
state my
430selfe to be in a due re
solution.
¶Bast. I
shall
seeke him
sir pre
sently, conuey the bu
¶sine
sse as I
shall see meanes, and acquaint you withall.
¶Glost. The
se late eclip
ses in the Sunne and Moone por
¶tend
no good to vs, though the wi
sedome of nature can
435rea
son thus
and thus, yet nature finds it
selfe
scourg'd
¶by the
sequent effects,
loue cooles, friend
ship fals off,
¶brothers diuide, in Citties mu-
tinies, in Countries di
s¶cords, Pallaces trea
son, the bond crackt
betweene
¶sonne and father;
¶find out this villaine
Edmund, it
shal
loo
se
445thee nothing, doe it carefully, and the noble and true har-
¶ted
Kent bani
sht, his offence hone
st,
strange
strange!
¶Bast. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that
¶when
we are
sicke in Fortune, often the
surfeit of our owne
¶behauiour,
we make guiltie of our di
sa
sters, the Sunne, the
450Moone, and the
Starres, as if we were Villaines by nece
ssitie,
¶Fooles by heauen-
ly compul
sion, Knaues, Theeues, and
¶Trecherers by
spirituall
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