The History of King Lear.
¶Bast. It is his hand my Lord, but I hope his heart is not in
¶Glost. Hath he neuer heeretofore
sounded you in this bu
si-
nessse?
405Bast. Neuer my Lord, but I haue often heard him maintaine
¶it to be fit, that
sonnes at parfit age, and fathers declining, his
¶father
should be as Ward to the
sonne, and the
sonne mannage
¶Glost. O villaine, villaine, his very opinion in the Letter, ab-
410horrid villaine, vnnaturall dete
sted bruiti
sh villaine, wor
se then
¶bruiti
sh go
sir
seeke him; I, apprehend him, abhominable vil-
¶Bast. I do not well know my Lord, if it
shall plea
se you to
¶su
spend your indignation again
st my brother, till you can de-
415riue from him better te
stimony of this intent, you
shal runnne a
¶certaine 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, and
shake in peeces the heart of his obedience, I dare
¶pawne downe my life for him, hee hath wrote this to feele my
420affection 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 aurigular a
ssurance
425haue your
satisfaction, and that without any further delay then
¶Glost. He cannot be
such a mon
ster.
427.1Bast. Nor is not
sure.
¶Glost. To his father, that
so tenderly and entirely loues him:
¶heauen and earth!
Edmund seeke him out, winde me into him, I
¶pray you frame your bu
sines after your owne wi
sedome, I wold
¶vn
state my
selfe ro 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, portend no
¶good to vs, though the wi
sedome of nature can rea
son thus and
435thus, yet nature findes it
selfe
scourg'd by the
sequent effects,
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