The Historie of King Lear.
predominance, Drunkards, Ly
¶ars, and Adulterers by an enfor
st
obedience of planitary
¶influence, and all that wee are euill in,
by a diuine thru
455sting on, an admirable eua
sion of whorema
ster
man,
¶to lay his goti
sh di
spo
sition to the charge of Starres:
¶my
Father compounded with my Mother vnder the Dra
¶gons taile,
and my natiuitie was vnder
Vrsa maior,
so
¶that it followes, I am
rough and lecherous, Fut, I
should
460haue beene that I am, had the
maidenle
st
starre of the Fir
¶mament twinckled on my ba
stardy
¶Edgar; and out hee comes like the Cata
strophe of the old Co-
medy,
¶mine is villanous melancholy, with a
sith like them of
465Bedlam; O the
se eclip
ses doe portend the
se diui
¶sions.
Edgar. How now
¶brother
Edmund, what
serious con
¶templa-
tion are you in?
¶Bast. I am thinking brother of a prediction I read this
470other
day, what should follow these Eclipses.
¶Edg. Doe you bu
sie your
selfe about that?
¶Bast. I promi
se you the effects he writ of,
succeed
¶vnhappily,
as of vnnaturalnesse betweene the child and the parent, death,
473.1dearth, di
ssolutions of ancient amities, diui
sions in
state, mena-
¶ces and maledictions again
st King and nobles, needles diffiden-
¶ces, bani
shment of friẽds, di
ssipation of Cohorts, nuptial breach-
¶es, and I know not what.
.5Edg. How long haue you beene a
sectary A
stronomicall?
Bast. Come, come,
¶when
saw you my father la
st
?
Edg. Why,
475the night gon by.
¶Bast. Spake you with him?
¶Edg. Two houres together.
¶Bast. Parted you in good tearmes
? found you no di
s¶plea
sure
in him by word or countenance?
¶Bast. Bethinke your
selfe wherein you may haue offen
¶ded
him, and at my intreatie, forbeare his pre
sence, till
¶some little
time hath qualified the heat of his di
splea
sure,
¶which at this in-
stant
so rageth in him, that with the mi
s485chiefe, of your par
son it
would scarce allay.
¶Edg. Some villaine hath done me wrong.
¶Bast. Thats my feare
¶brother, I adui
se you to the be
st, goe
arm'd, I am no hone
st
¶man if there bee any good meaning to-
