1970Enter Cornewell and Bastard.
¶Corn. I will haue my reuenge ere I depart the hou
se.
¶Bast. How my Lord I may be cen
sured, that nature
¶thus giues
way to loyaltie,
some thing feares me to
1975thinke of.
Corn. I now perceiue it was not altogether your
¶brothers e-
uill di
spo
sition made him
seeke his death, but
¶a prouoking merit,
set a worke by a reproueable badnes
¶in him
selfe.
¶Bast. How malicious is my fortune, that I mu
st re
1980pent to bee
iu
st
? this is the letter he
spoke of,
¶which approues him an intelli-
gent partie to the aduanta
¶ges of
France, O heauens that his trea-
son were,
¶or not I the detecter.
¶Corn. Goe with me to the Dutches.
1985Bast. If the matter of this paper be certaine, you haue
¶mighty
busines in hand.
¶Corn. True or fal
se, it hath made thee Earle of
Glo¶ster,
seeke
out where thy father is, that hee may bee
¶readie for our appre-
hension.
1990Bast. If I find him comforting the King, it will
stuffe
¶his
su
s-
pition more fully, I will per
seuere in my cour
se of
¶loyaltie,
though the conflict be
sore betweene that and
¶my bloud.
¶Corn. I will lay tru
st vpon thee, and thou
shalt find
1995a dearer
father in my loue.