Lear's Labour's Lost
                                                         copyright © 2007 Jeff Goode

            ACT IV

            SCENE 3 - Gloucester's castle.
                  Enter GLOUCESTER and EDMUND
            GLOUCESTER
               Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural dealing. When I desire their leave that I
               might pity him, they took from me the use of mine own house; charged me, on pain of their
               perpetual displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.
            EDMUND
               Most savage and unnatural!
            GLOUCESTER
               Go to; say you nothing. There's a division betwixt the sisters; and a worse matter than that: I
               have received a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be spoken; I have locked the letter in my
               closet: these injuries the king now bears will be revenged home; there's part of a power
               already footed: we must incline to the king. I will seek him, and privily relieve him: go you
               and maintain talk with the princesses, that my charity be not of them perceived: if they ask
               for me. I am ill, and gone to bed. Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me, the king
               my old master must be relieved. There is some strange thing toward, Edmund; pray you, be
               careful. 
                                                                      Exit
            EDMUND
               This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the sisters 
               Instantly know; and of that letter too: 
               This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me 
               That which my father loses; no less than all: 
               The younger rises when the old doth fall. 
                                                                      Exit

Forth!