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Gloucester's castle.
[Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, GONERIL, EDMUND, and Servants]
CORNWALL
Post speedily to my lord your husband, show him this letter, the army of
France is landed: seek out the traitor Gloucester.
[Exeunt some of the Servants]
REGAN
Hang him instantly.
GONERIL
Pluck out his eyes.
CORNWALL
Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep you our sister company: the
revenges we are bound to take upon your traitorous father, are not fit for
your beholding. Advise the duke where you are going, to a most festinate
preparation: we are bound to the like. Our posts shall be swift, and
intelligent betwixt us. Farewell dear sister, farewell, my lord of
Gloucester. How now? Where's the king?
STEWARD
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My lord | of Glouce|ster hath | conveyed | him
hence
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Some five | or six | and thir|ty of | his knights
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Hot questrists | after | him, met | him at gate,
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Who, with | some o/ther of the | lords,
de|pendants,
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Are gone | with him / towards Dov|er; where |
they boast
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To have / well-armed | friends.
CORNWALL
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Get | horses | for your || mistress.
GONERIL
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Farewell | sweet lord, and sis|ter.
CORNWALL
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Edmund *fare|well: go*| seek the | traitor |
Gloucester,
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Pinion | him like | a thief,| bring him | before
us:
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Though well | we may | not pass | upon | his life
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Without | the form | of just|ice: yet | our power
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Shall do | a court|esy | to our wrath,| which men
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May blame,| but not | control. \\
[Enter GLOUCESTER, brought in by two or three]
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Who's there?| The trait|or?
REGAN
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Ingrate|ful fox,| 'tis he.
CORNWALL
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Bind fast his cork|y arms.
GLOUCESTER
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What mean | your graces?
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Good my | friends, con|sider | you are | my
guests:
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Do me no | foul play, friends.
CORNWALL
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Bind him | I say.
REGAN
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Hard, hard: O | filthy | traitor.|
GLOUCESTER
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Unmer|ciful la|dy as | you are,| I'm none.
CORNWALL
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To this chair | bind him,
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Villain,| thou shalt find. (tri with prev)
GLOUCESTER
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By the / kind gods,| 'tis most | ignob|ly done
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To pluck | me by | the beard. \\
REGAN
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So white,| and such | a trait|or?
GLOUCESTER
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Naugh|ty la||dy,
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These hairs | which thou | dost rav|ish from | my
chin
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Will quick|en and | accuse | thee. I | am your
host,
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With rob|bers' hands,| my hos|pitable | favors
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You should / not ruf|fle thus.| What will | you
do?
CORNWALL
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Come sir,| What let|ters had | you late | from
France?
REGAN
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Be simp|le ans|wered, for | we know | the truth.
CORNWALL
And what confederacy have you with the traitors, late footed in the kingdom?
REGAN
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To whose hands ????
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You have sent the lunatic king: Speak. ????
GLOUCESTER
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I have | a let|ter gues|singly / set down
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Which came | from one | that's of | a neut|ral
heart,
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And not | from one | opposed.
CORNWALL
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Cunning.
REGAN
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And false.
CORNWALL
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Where hast | thou sent | the king?
GLOUCESTER
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To Dov|er.
REGAN
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Where||fore to Dov|er? Wast | thou not |
charged at | peril.
CORNWALL
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Wherefore to | Dover?| Let him | first^ans|wer
that.
GLOUCESTER
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I am tied | to the stake,| and I | must stand |
the course.
REGAN
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Wherefore | to Dov|er? \\
GLOUCESTER
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Because | I would | not see | thy cru|el nails
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Pluck^out | his poor old eyes:| nor thy fierce |
sister,
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In his | anoin|ted flesh,| stick boarish fangs.
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The sea,| with such | a storm | as his / bare
head,
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In hell-black night | endured,| would have /
buoyed up
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And quenched | the stel|led fires:|
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Yet poor old heart,| he holp | the heav|ens to
rain.
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If wolves | had at thy / gate howled | that stern
time,
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Thou shouldst | have said,| good* port|er turn |
the key:
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All cru|els else | subscribed:| but I | shall see
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The winged | vengeance^|over|take such^|children.
CORNWALL
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See it shalt^|thou nev|er, fel|lows, hold | the
chair,
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Upon | these^eyes | of thine,| I'll set | my
foot.
GLOUCESTER
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He that | will think | to live,| till he | be
old,
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Give me | some help--| O cru|el! O | you gods.
REGAN
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One* side | will mock | another:| the oth|er too.
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CORNWALL
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If you | see venge|ance.
FIRST SERVANT
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Hold | your hand,| my lord:
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I have served | you ev|er since | I was | a
child:
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But bet|ter serv|ice have | I never | done you,
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Than now | to bid | you hold.
REGAN
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How* now,| you dog?
FIRST SERVANT
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If you | did wear | a beard | upon | your chin,
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I'd shake it | on this | quarrel.| What do | you
mean?
CORNWALL
My villain?
[They draw and fight]
FIRST SERVANT
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Nay then | come^on,| and take | the chance | of
an||ger.
REGAN
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Give | me thy sword.| A peas|ant stand | up thus?
[Takes a sword, and runs at him behind]
FIRST SERVANT
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Oh I | am slain:| My lord,| you have / one eye ||
left
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To | see some | mischief | on him.| Oh.
[Dies]
CORNWALL
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Lest it see more,| prevent it;| Out vile jelly:
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Where is | thy lust|er now?
GLOUCESTER
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All dark | and com|fortless?
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Where's my son | Edmund? (tri with prev two)
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Edmund,| enkind|le all | the sparks | of na||ture
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To quit | this hor|rid act.
REGAN
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Out trea/cherous | villain, (tri with prev)
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Thou callst | on him,| that hates | thee. It |
was he
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That made | the ov|erture | of thy treas|ons to us:
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Who is too | good to | pity | thee.
GLOUCESTER
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O my | follies!| Then Edg|ar was | abused,
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Kind gods, forgive | me that,| and pros|per him.
REGAN
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Go* thrust | him out | at gates,| and let | him
smell
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His way | to Dover. \\
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How is it | my lord?| how look | you? \\
CORNWALL
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I have | received | a hurt:| follow me | lady;
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Turn^out | that eye|less vil|lain: throw | this
slave
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Upon | the dung|hill*: Reg|an, I bleed | apace,
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Untime|ly comes | this hurt.| Give me | your arm.
[Exit CORNWALL, led by REGAN]
SECOND SERVANT
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I'll nev|er care | what wick|edness / I do,
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If this | man come | to good.
THIRD SERVANT
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If she live long,
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And in | the end | meet the / old course | of
death,
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Women | will all | turn mon/sters.
SECOND SERVANT
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Let's^||follow | the old | earl, and | get the
| Bedlam
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To lead | him where | he would:| his rogu|ish
mad||ness
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Allows | itself | to an|ything.
THIRD SERVANT
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Go thou:| I'll fetch | some flax | and whites |
of eggs
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To apply | to his bleed|ing face.| Now*, heaven |
help him!
[Exeunt severally]