436395loue cooles, friend
ship fals o
ff, brothers diuide, in Cities muti
- 437396nies, in Countries di
scords, Pallaces trea
son, the bond crackt
439397betweene
sonne and father;
finde out this villaine,
Edmund it
444398shall lo
se thee nothing, do it carefully; and the noble and true
446399hearted
Kent bani
sht, his o
ffence hone
st;
strange,
strange!
447400Bast. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we
448401are
sicke in Fortune, often the
surfet of our owne behauiour,
449402we make guilty of our di
sa
sters, the Sunne, the Moore, and the
450403stars, as if we were villaines by nece
ssity, fooles by heauenly
451404compul
sion, knaues, theeues, and trecherers by
spirituall predo
- 452405minance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'
st obedi
- 453406ence of planitary in
fluence, and all that we are euill in, by a di
- 454407uine thru
sting on, an admirable eua
sion of whore-ma
ster man,
456408to lay his goati
sh di
spo
sition to the charge of
stars; my Father
457409compounded with my Mother vnder the Dragons taile, & my
458410natiuity was vnder
Vrsa maior,
so that it followes I am rough &
459411lecherous; Fut, I
should haue beene that I am, had the maiden
- 460412le
st starre of the Firmament twinckled on my ba
stardy;
Edgar,
463414& out he comes like the Cata
strophe of the old Comedy, mine
464415is villanous melancholy, with a
sigh like them of
Bedlam; O
465416the
se Ecclip
ses do portend the
se diui
sions.
467417Edgar. How now brother
Edmund, what
serious contempla
- 469419Bast. I am thinking brother of a predi
ction I read this other
470420day, what
should follow the
se Ecclip
ses.
471421Edg. Doe you bu
sie your
selfe about that?
472422Bast. I promi
se you the e
ffe
cts he writ of,
succeed vnhappily,
473423as of vnnaturalne
sse betweene the childe and the parent, death,
473.1424dearth, di
ssolutions of ancient armies, diui
sions in
state, mena
- 473.2425ces and maledi
ctions again
st King and Nobles, needle
sse di
ffi- 473.3426dences, bani
shment of friends, di
ssipation of Cohorts, nuptiall
473.5428Edg. How long haue you bin a
se
ctary A
stronomicall?
474429Bast. Come, come, when
saw you my father la
st?
475430Edg. Why the night gone by.
476431Bast. Spake you with him?
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