Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Michael BestNot Peer Reviewed
King Lear (Quarto 1, 1608)
 19711694Corn. I will haue my reuenge ere I depart the hou
se.
  19721695Bast. How my Lord I may be cen
sured, that nature 
1973thus giues
  1696way to loyaltie, 
some thing feares me to 
1975thinke of.
  1697Corn. I now perceiue it was not altogether your 
1976brothers e
-  1698uill di
spo
sition made him 
seeke his death,
 but 
1977a prouoking merit,
  1699set a worke by a reproueable badnes 
1978in him
selfe.
  19791700Bast. How malicious is my fortune, that I mu
st re
1980pent to bee
  1701iu
st? this is the letter he 
spoke of,
 1981which approues him an intelli
-  1702gent partie to the aduanta
1982ges of 
France, O heauens that his trea
-  1703son were, 
1983or not I the dete
cter.
  19841704Corn. Goe with me to the Dutches.
  19851705Bast. If the matter of this paper be certaine, you haue 
1986mighty
  19871707Corn. True or fal
se, it hath made thee Earle of 
Glo1988ster, 
seeke
  1708out where thy father is, that hee may bee 
1989readie for our appre
-  19901710Bast. If I 
find him comforting the King, it will 
stu
ffe 
1991his 
su
s-  1711pition more fully, I will per
seuere in my cour
se of 
1992loyaltie,
  1712though the con
fli
ct be 
sore betweene that and 
1993my bloud.
  19941713Corn. I will lay tru
st vpon thee, and thou 
shalt 
find 
1995a dearer
  1714father in my loue. 
 Exit.