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Enter REGAN and OSWALD
| REGAN
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But are my brother's
powers set forth? |
| OSWALD
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Ay, madam. |
| REGAN
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Himself in person there?
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| OSWALD
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Madam, with much ado:
Your sister is the better soldier. |
| REGAN
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Lord Edmund spake not with
your lord at home? |
| OSWALD
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No, madam. |
| REGAN
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What might import my
sister's letter to him? |
| OSWALD
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I know not, lady.
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| REGAN
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'Faith, he is posted hence
on serious matter.
It was great ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out,
To let him live: where he arrives he moves
All hearts against us: Edmund, I think, is gone,
In pity of his misery, to dispatch
His nighted life: moreover, to descry
The strength o' the enemy. |
| OSWALD
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I must needs after him,
madam, with my letter. |
| REGAN
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Our troops set forth
to-morrow: stay with us;
The ways are dangerous. |
| OSWALD
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I may not, madam:
My lady charged my duty in this business. |
| REGAN
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Why should she write to
Edmund? Might not you
Transport her purposes by word? Belike,
Something--I know not what: I'll love thee much,
Let me unseal the letter. |
| OSWALD
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Madam, I had rather--
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| REGAN
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I know your lady does not
love her husband;
I am sure of that: and at her late being here
She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks
To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom. |
| OSWALD
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I, madam? |
| REGAN
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I speak in understanding;
you are; I know't:
Therefore I do advise you, take this note:
My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk'd;
And more convenient is he for my hand
Than for your lady's: you may gather more.
If you do find him, pray you, give him this;
And when your mistress hears thus much from you,
I pray, desire her call her wisdom to her.
So, fare you well.
If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,
Preferment falls on him that cuts him off. |
| OSWALD
|
Would I could meet him,
madam! I should show
What party I do follow. |
| REGAN
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Fare thee well.
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[Exeunt] |
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Act III, Scene 3 Gloucester's castle./Act
III, Scene 4 The heath. Before a hovel. |
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Act I, Scene 1 King Lear's palace |
Act III, Scene 5 Gloucester's castle./Act
III, Scene 6 A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle. |
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Act I, Scene 2 The Earl of Gloucester's
castle. |
Act III, Scene 7 Gloucester's castle. |
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Act I, Scene 3 The Duke of Albany's palace. |
Act IV, Scene 1 The heath. |
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Act I, Scene 4 A hall in the same. |
Act IV, Scene 2 Before Albany's palace. |
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Act I, Scene 5 Court before the same. |
Act IV, Scene 3 The French camp near
Dover./Act IV, Scene 4 The same. A tent. |
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Act II, Scene 1 Gloucester's castle. |
Act IV, Scene 5 Gloucester's castle. |
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Act II, Scene 2 Before Gloucester's castle. |
Act IV, Scene 6 Fields near Dover. |
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Act II, Scene 3 A wood./Act II, Scene 4
Before Gloucester's castle. |
Act IV, Scene 7 A tent in the French camp. |
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Act III, Scene 1 A heath. |
Act V, Scene 1 The British camp near Dover. |
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Act III, Scene 2 Another part of the heath. |
Act V, Scene 2 A field between the two
camps./Act V, Scene 3 The British camp near Dover. |
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