REGAN.
’Tis most convenient; pray you, go with us.
GONERIL.
[Aside.] O, ho, I know the riddle. I will go.
[Exeunt Edmund, Regan, Goneril, Officers, Soldiers and Attendants.]
As they are going out, enter Edgar disguised.
EDGAR.
If e’er your grace had speech with man so poor,
Hear me one word.
ALBANY.
I’ll overtake you. Speak.
EDGAR.
Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.
If you have victory, let the trumpet sound
For him that brought it: wretched though I seem,
I can produce a champion that will prove
What is avouched there. If you miscarry,
Your business of the world hath so an end,
And machination ceases. Fortune love you!
ALBANY.
Stay till I have read the letter.
EDGAR.
I was forbid it.
When time shall serve, let but the herald cry,
And I’ll appear again.
ALBANY.
Why, fare thee well. I will o’erlook thy paper.