409366Glost. O villaine, villaine, his very opinion in the let410ter, ab-

367horred villaine, vnnaturall detested brutish 411villaine, worse then

368brutish, go sir seeke him, I 412apprehend him, abhominable villaine

369where is he?

413370Bast. I doe not well know my Lord, if it shall please you to

414371suspend your indignation against my brother, til you can 415deriue

372from him better testimony of this intent: you should 416run a cer-

373taine course, where if you violently proceed 417against him, mi-

374staking his purpose, it would make a great 418gap in your owne

375honour, & shake in peeces the heart of 419his obediẽce, I dare pawn

376downe my life for him, 420he hath wrote this to feele my affection

377to your honour, and 421to no further pretence of danger.

422378Glost. Thinke you so?

423379Bast. If your honour iudge it meete, I will place you 424where

380you shall heare vs conferre of this, and by an auri425gular assurance

381haue your satisfaction, and that without 426any further delay then

382this very euening.

427383Glost. He cannot be such a monster.

427.1384Bast. Nor is not sure.

427.2385Glost. To his father, that so tenderly and intirely loues him,

427.3386heauen and earth! Edmund seeke 428him out, wind mee into him, I

387pray you frame your bu429sines after your own wisedome, I would

388vnstate my 430selfe to be in a due resolution.

431389Bast. I shall seeke him sir presently, conuey the bu432sinesse as I

390shall see meanes, and acquaint you withall.

433391Glost. These late eclipses in the Sunne and Moone por434tend

392no good to vs, though the wisedome of nature can 435reason thus

393and thus, yet nature finds it selfe scourg'd 436by the sequent effects,

394loue cooles, friendship fals off, 437brothers diuide, in Citties mu-

395tinies, in Countries dis438cords, Pallaces treason, the bond crackt

396betweene 439sonne and father; 444find out this villaine Edmund, it shal

397loose 445thee nothing, doe it carefully, and the noble and true har-

446398ted Kent banisht, his offence honest, strange strange!

447399Bast. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that 448when

400we are sicke in Fortune, often the surfeit of our owne 449behauiour,

401we make guiltie of our disasters, the Sunne, the 450Moone, and the

402Starres, as if we were Villaines by necessitie, 451Fooles by heauen-

403ly compulsion, Knaues, Theeues, and 452Trecherers by spirituall