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.