Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Michael BestNot Peer Reviewed
King Lear (Folio 1, 1623)
 1752Enter Gloster, and Edmund.  1753Glo. Alacke,
 alacke 
Edmund, I like not this vnnaturall
  1754dealing;
 when I de
sired their leaue that I might pity him,
  1755they tooke from me the v
se of mine owne hou
se, charg'd
  1756me on paine of perpetuall di
splea
sure, neither to 
speake
  1757of him,
 entreat for him,
 or any way 
su
staine him.
  1758Bast. Mo
st sauage and vnnaturall.
  1759Glo. Go too; 
say you nothing. There is diui
sion be
-  1760tweene the Dukes, and a wor
sse matter then that: I haue
  1761receiued a Letter this night, 'tis dangerous to be 
spoken,
  1762I haue lock'd the Letter in my Clo
sset, the
se iniuries the
  1763King now beares,
 will be reuenged home; ther is part of
  1764a Power already footed, we mu
st incline to the King, I
  1765will looke him, and priuily relieue him; goe you and
  1766maintaine talke with the Duke,
 that my charity be not of
  1767him perceiued; If he a
ske for me, I am ill, and  gone to
  1768bed, if I die for it, (as no le
sse is threatned me) the King
  1769my old Ma
ster mu
st be relieued. There is 
strange things
  1770toward 
Edmund,
 pray you be carefull. 
 Exit.  1771Bast. This Curte
sie forbid thee,
 shall the Duke
  1772In
stantly know,
 and of that Letter too;
  1773This 
seemes a faire de
seruing, and mu
st draw me
  1774That which my Father loo
ses:
 no le
sse then all,
  1775The yonger ri
ses,
 when the old doth fall. 
 Exit.