The Historie of King Lear.
¶Enter Bast. and Curan meeting.
¶Curan. And you Sir, I haue beene
930with your father, and giuen
him notice,
¶that the Duke of
Cornwall and his Dutches
¶will bee
here with him to night.
¶Curan. Nay, I know not, you haue heard of the newes
935abroad,
I meane the whi
sperd ones, for there are yet but
¶eare-bu
ssing ar-
guments.
¶Bast. Not, I pray you what are they?
¶Curan. Haue you heard of no likely warres towards,
¶twixt
the two Dukes of Cornwall and Albany?
¶Curan. You may then in time,
¶fare you well
sir.
¶Bast. The Duke be here to night! the better be
st,
¶this weaues
Enter Edgarit
selfe perforce into my bu
sines,
945my father hath
set gard to take
my brother,
¶and I haue one thing of a que
sie que
stion, which
mu
st a
ske breefnes and fortune helpe;
¶brother, a word, di
scend
brother I
say,
950my father watches, O flie this place,
¶intelligence
is giuen where you are hid,
¶you haue now the good aduantage
of the night,
¶haue you not
spoken gain
st the Duke of
Cornwallought,
¶hee's coming hether now in the night, it'h ha
st,
955and
Re-
gan with him, haue you nothing
said
¶vpon his partie again
st the
Duke of
Albany,
¶adui
se your---
¶Edg. I am
sure on't not a word.
¶Bast. I heare my father coming, pardon me
960in crauing, I mu
st
draw my
sword vpon you,
¶seeme to defend your
selfe,
¶now quit
you well,
¶yeeld, come before my father, light here, here,
¶flie
brother flie, torches, torches,
so farwell;
¶some bloud drawne
on mee would beget opinion
¶of my more fierce indeuour, I
haue
seene drunckards
¶doe more then this in
sport, father, father,
Enter Glost.
¶Glost. Now
Edmund where is the villaine?
¶Bast. Here
stood he in the darke, his
sharpe
sword out,
¶warb-
ling of wicked charms, coniuring the Moone
¶to
stand's au
spici-
ous Mistris.
Glost. 975But where is he
?
¶Bast. Looke
sir, I bleed.
¶Glost. Where is the villaine
Edmund?
