A Room in Gloucester's Castle.
 Enter CORNWALL and EDMUND.

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

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

Cornwall	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 reprovable badness in himself.

Edmund	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!

Cornwall	Go with me to the duchess.

Edmund	If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty 
	business in hand.

Cornwall	True or false, it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester. Seek 
	out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our 
	apprehension.

Edmund	[Aside.] If I find him comforting the king it will stuff 
	his suspicion more fully. [To CORNWALL.] I will persever in 
	my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between 
	that and my blood.

Cornwall	I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a dearer 
	father in my love.
												[Exeunt.
