| [Enter CORNWALL and EDMUND] | |
| CORNWALL | I will have my revenge ere I depart his house. |
| EDMUND | How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think of. |
| CORNWALL | I now perceive, it was not altogether your brother's evil disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reprovable badness in himself. |
| EDMUND | How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to be just! This is the letter he spoke of, which approves him an intelligent party to the advantages of France: O heavens! that this treason were not, or not I the detector! |
| CORNWALL | o with me to the duchess. |
| EDMUND | If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty business in hand. |
| CORNWALL | True or false, it hath made thee earl of Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our apprehension. |
| EDMUND | [Aside] If I find him comforting the king, it will stuff his suspicion more fully.--I will persevere in my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and my blood. |
| CORNWALL | I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love. |
| [Exeunt] |