Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Pervez RizviNot Peer Reviewed
King Lear (Quarto 2, 1619)
19711725Corn. I will haue my reuenge ere I depart the hou
se.
19721726Bast. How my Lord I may be cen
sured, 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
19761729di
spo
sition made him
seeke his death, but a prouoking merit,
set
19771730a worke by a reproueable badne
sse in him
selfe.
19791731Bast. How malicious is my fortune, that I mu
st repent to bee
19801732iu
st? this is the Letter he
spoke o
ff, which approues him an in
- 19811733telligent partie to the aduantages of
France, O heauens, that his
19821734trea
son were, or not I the dete
cter.
19841735Corn. Go with me to the Dutches.
19851736Bast. If the matter of this paper be certaine, you haue mighty
19871738Corn. True or fal
se, it hath made thee Earle of
Glocester,
seeke
19881739out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our apprehen
- 19901741Bast. If I
finde him comforting the King, it will
stu
ffe his
su
s- 19911742pition more fully, I will per
seuere in my cour
se of loyalty, thogh
19921743the con
fli
ct be
sore betweene that and my bloud.
19941744Corn. I will lay tru
st vpon thee, and thou
shalt
finde a dearer