LEAR.
Come, boy.
FOOL.
She that’s a maid now, and laughs at my departure,
Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter.
[Exeunt.]
ACT II
SCENE I. A court within the Castle of the Earl of Gloucester
Enter Edmund and Curan, meeting.
EDMUND.
Save thee, Curan.
CURAN.
And you, sir. I have been with your father, and given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his Duchess will be here with him this night.
EDMUND.
How comes that?
CURAN.
Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad; I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?