[Stage] Enter Gloucester and Edmund the bastard, with lights
Gloucester(格洛斯特)
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(爱德蒙)
Most savage and unnatural!
Gloucester(格洛斯特)
Go to, say you nothing. There’s a division betwixt the
dukes. 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
look him and privily relieve him. Go you and maintain
talk with the duke, that my charity be not of him
perceived.
If he 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.
[Stage] Exit Gloucester
Edmund(爱德蒙)
This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke
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.
[Stage] Exit