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REGAN . Such unconstant starts are we like to have from him as this of Kent’s banishment . GONERIL . There is further compliment of leave - taking between France and him . Pray you let us hit together : if our father carry authority with such disposition as he bears , this last surrender of his will but offend us . REGAN . We shall further think of it . GONERIL . We must do something , and i ’ th ’ heat . [ Exeunt . ] SCENE II . A Hall in the Earl of Gloucester’s Castle Enter Edmund with a letter . EDMUND . Thou , Nature , art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound . Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom , and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me ? For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard ? Wherefore base ? When my dimensions are as well compact , My mind as generous , and my shape as true As honest madam’s issue ? Why brand they us With base ? With baseness ? bastardy ? Base , base ? Who , in the lusty stealth of nature , take More composition and fierce quality Than doth within a dull stale tired bed Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops Got ’ tween asleep and wake ? Well then , Legitimate Edgar , I must have your land : Our father’s love is to the bastard Edmund As to the legitimate : fine word : legitimate ! Well , my legitimate , if this letter speed , And my invention thrive , Edmund the base Shall top the legitimate . I grow , I prosper . Now , gods , stand up for bastards ! Enter Gloucester . GLOUCESTER . Kent banish’d thus ! and France in choler parted ! And the King gone tonight ! Prescrib’d his pow’r ! Confin’d to exhibition ! All this done Upon the gad ! — Edmund , how now ! What news ? EDMUND . So please your lordship , none . [ Putting up the letter . ] GLOUCESTER . Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter ? EDMUND . I know no news , my lord . GLOUCESTER . What paper were you reading ? EDMUND . Nothing , my lord . GLOUCESTER . No ? What needed then that terrible dispatch of it into your pocket ? The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself . Let’s see . Come , if it be nothing , I shall not need spectacles . EDMUND . I beseech you , sir , pardon me . It is a letter from my brother that I have not all o’er - read ; and for so much as I have perus’d , I find it not fit for your o’er - looking . GLOUCESTER . Give me the letter , sir . EDMUND . I shall offend , either to detain or give it . The contents , as in part I understand them , are to blame . GLOUCESTER . Let’s see , let’s see ! EDMUND . I hope , for my brother’s justification , he wrote this but as an essay , or taste of my virtue .
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