Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Michael BestNot Peer Reviewed
King Lear (Quarto 1, 1608)
17521506Enter Gloster and the Bastard with lights. 17531507Glost. Alacke alacke
Edmund I like not this,
1508Vnnaturall
1754dealing when I de
sir'd their leaue
1509That I might pitty him,
1755they tooke me from me
1510The v
se of mine owne hou
se, charg'd
1756me on paine
1511Of their di
splea
sure, neither to
speake
1757of him,
1512Intreat for him,
nor any way
su
staine him.
17581513Bast. Mo
st sauage and vnnaturall.
17591514Glost. Go toe
say you nothing,
ther's a diui
siõ be
1760twixt (the Dukes,
1515And a wor
se matter then that, I haue
1761receiued
1516A letter this night, tis dangerous to be
spoken,
17621517I haue lockt the letter in my clo
set, the
se iniuries
1518The
1763King now beares, will be reuenged home
1519Ther's part of
1764a power already landed,
1520We mu
st incline to the King, I
1765will
seeke him,
and
1521Priuily releeue him, goe you and
1766maintaine talke
1522With the Duke, that my charity be not of
1767him
1523Perceiued, if hee aske for me, I am ill,
and gon
1524To
1768bed, though I die for't,
as no le
sse is threatned me,
1525The King
1769my old ma
ster mu
st be releeued,
there is
1526Some
strãge thing
1770toward,
Edmund pray you be careful.
Exit. 17711527Bast. This curte
sie forbid thee,
shal the Duke
1772in
stãly (know
1528And of that letter to,
1773this
seems a faire de
seruing
1529And mu
st draw me
1774that which my father loo
ses,
no le
sse
1530Then all,
1775then yonger ri
ses when the old doe fall.
Exit.