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Original Text | Modern Text |
| Enter CORNWALL and EDMUND
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CORNWALL enters with EDMUND .
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CORNWALL I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
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CORNWALL I’ll get my revenge before I leave this house.
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EDMUND How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives
way to loyalty, something fears me to think of.
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EDMUND I’m afraid to think how I’ll be criticized for letting my natural affection for my father give way to my loyalty to you.
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CORNWALL 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.
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CORNWALL Now I realize your brother tried to kill your father not just because your brother is an evil man, but because your father deserved it by being wicked himself.
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EDMUND 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!
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EDMUND How unlucky am I, having to apologize for doing the right thing! (giving CORNWALL a letter) This is the letter he was talking about, and it confirms he was a spy for France. Oh God, I wish he had never betrayed us, or that I hadn’t been the one to discover his treason.
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CORNWALL Go with me to the duchess.
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CORNWALL Come with me to see the duchess.
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EDMUND If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty
business in hand.
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EDMUND If this letter’s right, you’ve got a lot to deal with.
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CORNWALL |
CORNWALL Right or not, it’s made you the Earl of Gloucester. Go find your father and let him know we’re going to arrest him.
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EDMUND
(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.
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EDMUND
(to himself) If I catch my father helping the king, he’ll seem even more guily. (to CORNWALL) I’ll do what I must loyally, even though it pains me to take action against my father.
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CORNWALL I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find a dearer father
in my love.
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CORNWALL I put my trust in you. You’ll see that I’m a better father to you than Gloucester.
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| Exeunt
| They exit.
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Original Text | Modern Text |
| Enter CORNWALL and EDMUND
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CORNWALL enters with EDMUND .
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CORNWALL I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.
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CORNWALL I’ll get my revenge before I leave this house.
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EDMUND How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives
way to loyalty, something fears me to think of.
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EDMUND I’m afraid to think how I’ll be criticized for letting my natural affection for my father give way to my loyalty to you.
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CORNWALL 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.
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CORNWALL Now I realize your brother tried to kill your father not just because your brother is an evil man, but because your father deserved it by being wicked himself.
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|
EDMUND 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!
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EDMUND How unlucky am I, having to apologize for doing the right thing! (giving CORNWALL a letter) This is the letter he was talking about, and it confirms he was a spy for France. Oh God, I wish he had never betrayed us, or that I hadn’t been the one to discover his treason.
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CORNWALL Go with me to the duchess.
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CORNWALL Come with me to see the duchess.
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EDMUND If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty
business in hand.
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EDMUND If this letter’s right, you’ve got a lot to deal with.
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CORNWALL |
CORNWALL Right or not, it’s made you the Earl of Gloucester. Go find your father and let him know we’re going to arrest him.
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EDMUND
(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.
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EDMUND
(to himself) If I catch my father helping the king, he’ll seem even more guily. (to CORNWALL) I’ll do what I must loyally, even though it pains me to take action against my father.
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CORNWALL I will lay trust upon thee, and thou shalt find a dearer father
in my love.
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CORNWALL I put my trust in you. You’ll see that I’m a better father to you than Gloucester.
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| Exeunt
| They exit.
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