[Stage] Enter Cornwall and Edmund
Cornwall(康沃尔)
I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
Edmund(爱德蒙)
How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives
way to loyalty, something fears me to think of.
Cornwall(康沃尔)
I now perceive it was not altogether your brother’s
evil disposition made him seek his death, but a
provoking merit set awork by a reprovable badness in
himself.
Edmund(爱德蒙)
How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to be
just!
[giving Cornwall a letter]
This is the letter
which 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(康沃尔)
Go with me to the duchess.
Edmund(爱德蒙)
If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty
business in hand.
Cornwall(康沃尔)
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(爱德蒙)
[aside] If I find him comforting the king, it will
stuff his suspicion more fully. [to Cornwall] I will
persevere in my course of loyalty, though the conflict
be sore between that and my blood.
Cornwall(康沃尔)
I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find a
dearer father in my love.
[Stage] Exeunt