[Exeunt.]



Scene V. A Room in Gloster's Castle.

[Enter Cornwall and Edmund.]

Corn.
I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.

Edm.
How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to
loyalty, something fears me to think of.

Corn.
I now perceive it was not altogether your brother's evil
disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit, set
a-work by a reproveable badness in himself.

Edm.
How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to be just! This
is the letter he spoke of, which approves him an intelligent
party to the advantages of France. O heavens! that this treason
were not--or not I the detector!

Corn.
Go with me to the duchess.