436395loue cooles, friendship fals off, brothers diuide, in Cities muti-

437396nies, in Countries discords, Pallaces treason, the bond crackt

439397betweene sonne and father; finde out this villaine, Edmund it

444398shall lose thee nothing, do it carefully; and the noble and true

446399hearted Kent banisht, his offence honest; 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 disasters, the Sunne, the Moore, and the

450403stars, as if we were villaines by necessity, fooles by heauenly

451404compulsion, knaues, theeues, and trecherers by spirituall predo-

452405minance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'st obedi-

453406ence of planitary influence, and all that we are euill in, by a di-

454407uine thrusting on, an admirable euasion of whore-master man,

456408to lay his goatish disposition 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-

460412lest starre of the Firmament twinckled on my bastardy; Edgar,

463414& out he comes like the Catastrophe of the old Comedy, mine

464415is villanous melancholy, with a sigh like them of Bedlam; O

465416these Ecclipses do portend these diuisions.

467417Edgar. How now brother Edmund, what serious contempla-

468418tion are you in?

469419Bast. I am thinking brother of a prediction I read this other

470420day, what should follow these Ecclipses.

471421Edg. Doe you busie your selfe about that?

472422Bast. I promise you the effects he writ of, succeed vnhappily,

473423as of vnnaturalnesse betweene the childe and the parent, death,

473.1424dearth, dissolutions of ancient armies, diuisions in state, mena-

473.2425ces and maledictions against King and Nobles, needlesse diffi-

473.3426dences, banishment of friends, dissipation of Cohorts, nuptiall

473.4427breaches, and I know not what.

473.5428Edg. How long haue you bin a sectary Astronomicall?

474429Bast. Come, come, when saw you my father last?

475430Edg. Why the night gone by.

476431Bast. Spake you with him?