19571714Kent. This way my Lord.

19581715Lear. With him I will keepe still, with my Philosopher.

19601716Kent. Good my Lord sooth him, let him take the fellow.

19621717Glost. Take him you on.

19631718Kent. Sirra come on, go along with vs.

19641719Lear. Come good Athenian.

19651720Glost. No words, no words, hush.

19661721Edg. Childe Rowland, to the darke towne come,

19671722His word was still fye, fo, and fum,

19681723I smell the bloud of a British man.

19711725Corn. I will haue my reuenge ere I depart the house.

19721726Bast. How my Lord I may be censured, that nature thus giues

19731727way to loyalty, some-thing feares me to thinke of.

19751728Corn. I now preceiue it was not altogether your brothers euil

19761729disposition made him seeke his death, but a prouoking merit, set

19771730a worke by a reproueable badnesse in himselfe.

19791731Bast. How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to bee

19801732iust? this is the Letter he spoke off, which approues him an in-

19811733telligent partie to the aduantages of France, O heauens, that his

19821734treason were, or not I the detecter.

19841735Corn. Go with me to the Dutches.

19851736Bast. If the matter of this paper be certaine, you haue mighty

19861737businesse in hand.

19871738Corn. True or false, it hath made thee Earle of Glocester, seeke

19881739out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our apprehen-

19891740sion.

19901741Bast. If I finde him comforting the King, it will stuffe his sus-

19911742pition more fully, I will perseuere in my course of loyalty, thogh

19921743the conflict be sore betweene that and my bloud.

19941744Corn. I will lay trust vpon thee, and thou shalt finde a dearer

19951745father in my loue. Exit.

19981747Glost. Here is better then the open ayre, take it thankfully, I

19991748will peece out the comfort with what addition I can, I will not