Edg. Armed, brother![2763]
Edm. Brother, I advise you to the best: go armed: I[2763][2765]
am no honest man if there be any good meaning towards[2766]
you: I have told you what I have seen and heard; but[2767]
faintly, nothing like the image and horror of it: pray you,[2767] 165
away.
Edg. Shall I hear from you anon?
Edm. I do serve you in this business. [Exit Edgar.[2768]
A credulous father, and a brother noble,
Whose nature is so far from doing harms 170
That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty
My practices ride easy. I see the business.
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:
All with me's meet that I can fashion fit. [Exit.[2769]
Scene III. The Duke of Albany's palace.
Enter Goneril and Oswald, her steward.[2770]
Gon. Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding
of his fool?
Gon. By day and night he wrongs me; every hour[2773][2774]
He flashes into one gross crime or other,[2774] 5
That sets us all at odds: I'll not endure it:
His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us[2775]
On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,[2776]
I will not speak with him; say I am sick:
If you come slack of former services, 10
You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer.
Osw. He's coming, madam; I hear him. [Horns within.[2777]