but I shall see
The winged vengeance overtake such children.
The servants who have witnessed the blinding of Gloster by Cornwall and Regan, cannot believe that cruelty so atrocious will pass unpunished. One cries,
I'll never care what wickedness I do,
If this man come to good;
and another,
if she live long,
And in the end meet the old course of death,
Women will all turn monsters.
Albany greets the news of Cornwall's death with the exclamation,
This shows you are above,
You justicers, that these our nether crimes
So speedily can venge;
and the news of the deaths of the sisters with the words,
This judgment[149] of the heavens, that makes us tremble,
Touches us not with pity.
Edgar, speaking to Edmund of their father, declares