Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Pervez RizviNot Peer Reviewed
King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)
17521532Enter Glocester, and the Bastard with lights. 17531533Glost. Alacke, alacke,
Edmund I like not this
1534Vnnaturall dealing, when I de
sired their leaue
17541535That I might pitty him, they tooke from me
17551536The v
se of mine owne hou
se, chargd me on paine
17561537Of their di
splea
sure, neither to
speake of him,
17571538Entreate for him, nor any way
su
staine him.
17581539Bast. Mo
st sauage and vnnaturall.
17591540Glost. Go too,
say you nothing, there's a diui
sion betwixt the (Dukes,
17601541And a wor
se matter then that, I haue receiued
17611542A letter this night, tis dangerous to be
spoken,
17621543I haue lockt the letter in my Clo
set, the
se iniuries
1544The King now beares, will be reuenged home;
17631545There's part of a power already landed,
17641546We mu
st incline to the King, I will
seeke him,
17651547And priuily releeue him; go you and maintaine talke
17661548With the Duke, that my charity be not of him
17671549Perceiued; if he aske for me, I am ill, and gone
17681550To bed, though I die for it, as no le
sse is threatned me,
1551The King my old Ma
ster mu
st be releeued, there is
17691552Some
strange thing toward,
Edmund, pray you be carefull.
17711554Bast. This courte
sie forbid thee,
shall the Duke in
stantly know,
17721555And of that letter to, this
seemes a faire de
seruing,
17731556And mu
st draw to me that which my father lo
ses, no le
sse
17741557Then all, then yonger ri
ses when the old do fall.