Welcome, my lord. I marvel our mild husband

2269Not met us on the way. Now, where's your master?

Madam, within, but never man so changed.

2271I told him of the army that was landed;

2272He smiled at it. I told him you were coming;

2273His answer was "The worse." Of Gloucester's treachery

2274And of the loyal service of his son,

2275When I informed him, then he called me sot

2276And told me I had turned the wrong side out.

2277What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him,

2278What like, offensive.

What like, offensive. [To the Bastard] Then shall you go no further.

2280It is the cowish terror of his spirit

2281That dares not undertake. He'll not feel wrongs

2282Which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way

2283May prove effects. Back, Edmund, to my brother;

2284Hasten his musters, and conduct his powers.

2285I must change names at home and give the distaff

2286Into my husband's hands. This trusty servant

2287Shall pass between us. Ere long you are like to hear,

2288If you dare venture in your own behalf,

2289A mistress's command. Wear this--spare speech.

2290Decline your head.

Decline your head. This kiss, if it durst speak,

2291Would stretch thy spirits up into the air.

2292Conceive--and fare thee well.

Yours in the ranks of death.

Yours in the ranks of death. My most dear Gloucester.

2295Oh, the difference of man and man.

2296To thee a woman's services are due--

2297My fool usurps my body.

Madam, here comes my lord.

I have been worth the whistle.

I have been worth the whistle. O Goneril,

2302You are not worth the dust which the rude wind

2303Blows in your face. 37I fear your disposition.

Milk-livered man,

2305That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs,

2306Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning

2307Thine honor from thy suffering; 40that not know'st

See thyself, devil.

2309Proper deformity seems not in the fiend

2310So horrid as in woman.

So horrid as in woman. O vain fool.

O my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall's dead,

2314Slain by his servant, going to put out

2315The other eye of Gloucester.

The other eye of Gloucester. Gloucester's eyes?

A servant that he bred, thrilled with remorse,

2318Opposed against the act; bending his sword

2319To his great master, who, threat-enraged,

2320Flew on him, and amongst them felled him dead;

2321But not without that harmful stroke which since

2322Hath plucked him after.

Hath plucked him after. This shows you are above

2324You justices, 2077that these our nether crimes

2325So speedily can venge. 2078But oh, poor Gloucester,

2326Lost he his other eye?

Lost he his other eye? Both, both, my lord.

2328[To Goneril] This letter, madam, craves a speedy answer.

2329'Tis from your sister.

'Tis from your sister. [Aside] One way I like this well;

2331But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,

2332May all the building in my fancy pluck

2333Upon my hateful life. Another way

2334The news is not so tart. [Aloud] I'll read, and answer.

Where was his son 2336when they did take his eyes?

Come with my lady hither.

Come with my lady hither. He is not here?

No, my good lord, I met him back again.

Knows he the wickedness?

Ay, my good lord, 'twas he informed against him,

2342And quit the house on purpose that their punishment

2343Might have the freer course.

Might have the freer course. Gloucester, I live

2345To thank thee for the love thou showed'st the King,

2346And to revenge thine eyes.--Come hither, friend,

2347Tell me what more thou knowest.