Scene III. Gloucester's castle.
Enter Gloucester and Edmund.[3650]
Glou. Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural[3651]
dealing. When I desired their leave that I might pity him,[3651]
they took from me the use of mine own house; charged[3651][3652]
me, on pain of their perpetual displeasure, neither to speak[3651][3653]
of him, entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.[3651][3654] 5
Edm. Most savage and unnatural![3651][3655]
Glou. Go to; say you nothing. There's a division betwixt[3651][3656]
the dukes, and a worse matter than that: I have received[3651]
a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be spoken; I[3651]
have locked the letter in my closet: these injuries the king[3651] 10
now bears will be revenged home; there is part of a power[3651][3657]
already footed: we must incline to the king. I will seek[3651][3658]
him and privily relieve him: go you, and maintain talk[3651]
with the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived: if[3651]
he ask for me, I am ill and gone to bed. Though I die[3651][3659] 15
for it, as no less is threatened me, the king my old master[3651][3660]
must be relieved. There is some strange thing toward,[3651][3661]
Edmund; pray you, be careful. [Exit.[3651]
Edm. This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke[3662][3663]
Instantly know, and of that letter too:[3662] 20
This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me[3662][3664]
That which my father loses; no less than all:[3662][3665]
The younger rises when the old doth fall. [Exit.[3662][3666]
Scene IV. The heath. Before a hovel.[3667]
Enter Lear, Kent, and Fool.
Kent. Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter:[3668]
The tyranny of the open night's too rough[3668][3669]
For nature to endure. [Storm still.[3668][3670]
Lear. Let me alone.[3671]