Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies Published according to the true originall copies.
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Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies Published according to the true originall copies.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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London :: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount [at the charges of W. Iaggard, Ed. Blount, I. Smithweeke, and W. Aspley],
1623.
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"Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies Published according to the true originall copies." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11954.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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Scena Secunda.
Enter Gonerill, Bastard, and Steward.
Gon.
Welcome my Lord. I meruell our mild husbandNot met vs on the way. Now, where's your Master?
Stew.
Madam within, but neuer man so chang'd:I told him of the Army that was Landed:He smil'd at it. I told him you were comming,His answer was, the worse. Of Glosters Treachery,And of the loyall Seruice of his SonneWhen I inform'd him, then he call'd me Sot,And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out:What most he should dislike, seemes pleasant to him;What like, offensiue.
Gon.
Then shall you go no further.It is the Cowish terror of his spiritThat dares not vndertake: Hee'l not feele wrongsWhich tye him to an answer: our wishes on the wayMay proue effects. Backe Edmond to my Brother,Hasten his Musters, and conduct his powres.I must change names at home, and giue the DistaffeInto my Husbands hands. This trustie SeruantShall passe betweene vs: ere long you are like to heare(If you dare venture in your owne behalfe)A Mistresses command. Weare this; spare speech,Decline your head. This kisse, if it durst speakeWould stretch thy Spirits vp into the ayre:Conceiue, and fare thee well.
Bast.
Yours in the rankes of death.
Exit.
Gon.
My most deere Gloster.Oh, the difference of man, and man,To thee a Womans seruices are due,My Foole vsurpes my body.
Stew.
Madam, here come's my Lord.
Enter Albany.
Gon.
I haue beene worth the whistle.
Alb.
Oh Gonerill,You are not worth the dust which the rude windeBlowes in your face.
Gon.
Milke-Liuer'd man,That bear'st a cheeke for blowes, a head for wrongs,Who hast not in thy browes an eye-discerningThine Honor, from thy suffering.
Alb.
See thy selfe diuell:Proper deformitie seemes not in the FiendSo horrid as in woman.
Gon.
Oh vaine Foole.
Enter a Messenger.
Mes.
Oh my good Lord, the Duke of Cornwals dead,Slaine by his Seruant, going to put outThe other eye of Glouster.
Alb.
Glousters eyes.
Mes.
A Seruant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse,Oppos'd against the act: bending his SwordTo his great Master, who, threat-enrag'dFlew on him, and among'st them fell'd him dead,But not without that harmefull stroke, which sinceHath pluckt him after.
Alb.
This shewes you are aboueYou Iustices, that these our neather crimesSo speedily can venge. But (O poore Glouster)Lost he his other eye?
Mes.
Both, both, my Lord.This Leter Madam, craues a speedy answer:'Tis from your Sister.
Gon.
One way I like this well.But being widdow, and my Glouster with her,May all the building in my fancie pluckeVpon my hatefull life. Another wayThe Newes is not so tart. Ile read, and answer.
Alb.
Where was his Sonne,When they did take his eyes?
Mes.
Come with my Lady hither.
Alb.
He is not heere.
Mes.
No my good Lord, I met him backe againe.
Alb.
Knowes he the wickednesse?
Mes.
I my good Lord: 'twas he inform'd against himAnd quit the house on purpose, that their punishmentMight haue the freer course.
Alb.
Glouster, I liueTo thanke thee for the loue thou shew'dst the King,And to reuenge thine eyes. Come hither Friend,Tell me what more thou know'st.
Exeunt.
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