(Enter GLOUCESTER and EDMUND)
GLOUCESTER
Alack,
alack, Edmund, I like not this
unnatural dealing. When I desire their leave that I might
pity him, they took from me the use of mine own
house; charged me, on pain of their perpetual
displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for
him, nor any way sustain him.
EDMUND
Most
savage and
unnatural!
GLOUCESTER
Go to; say you nothing. There's a division
betwixt the dukes; and a worse matter than that: I have
received a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be
spoken; I have locked the letter in my
closet:
these injuries the king now bears will be revenged
home; there's part of a power already footed: we
must incline to the
king. I will seek him, and
privily relieve him: go you and maintain talk with
the duke, that my
charity be not of him perceived:
if he ask for me. I am ill, and gone to bed.
Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me,
the king my old master must be relieved. There is
some strange thing toward,
Edmund; pray you, be careful.
(Exit)
EDMUNDThis
courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke
Instantly know; and of that letter too:
This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me
That which my father loses; no less than all:
The younger rises when the old doth fall.
(Exit)
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