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Gloucester's castle.
[Enter GLOUCESTER and EDMUND]
GLOUCESTER
Alack, alack Edmund, I like not this unnatural dealing; when I desired 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 look 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, if 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]
EDMUND
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This court|esy | forbid | thee, shall | the duke
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Instant|ly know,| and of | that let|ter too;
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This seems | a fair | deserv|ing, and must| draw
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That which my | father | loses;| no less | than
all,
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The young|er ris|es, when the // old doth fall.
[Exit]