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King Lear (Modern, Quarto)
I will have my revenge ere I depart the house.
How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature 1973thus gives 1696way to loyalty, something fears me to 1974think of.
I now perceive it was not altogether your 1976brother's 1698evil disposition made him seek his death, but 1977a provoking merit 1699set a-work by a reprovable badness 1978in himself.
How malicious is my fortune that I must 1980repent to be 1701just! This is the letter he spoke of, 1981which approves him an 1702intelligent party to the 1982advantages of France. O heavens, that his 1703treason were not, 1983or not I the detector!
Go with me to the duchess.
True or false, it hath made thee Earl of 1988Gloucester. Seek 1708out where thy father is, that he may be 1989ready for our 1709apprehension.