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EDMUND . I shall attend you presently at your tent . REGAN . Sister , you’ll go with us ? GONERIL . No . REGAN . ’ Tis most convenient ; pray you , go with us . GONERIL . [ Aside . ] O , ho , I know the riddle . I will go . [ Exeunt Edmund , Regan , Goneril , Officers , Soldiers and Attendants . ] As they are going out , enter Edgar disguised . EDGAR . If e’er your grace had speech with man so poor , Hear me one word . ALBANY . I’ll overtake you . Speak . EDGAR . Before you fight the battle , ope this letter . If you have victory , let the trumpet sound For him that brought it : wretched though I seem , I can produce a champion that will prove What is avouched there . If you miscarry , Your business of the world hath so an end , And machination ceases . Fortune love you ! ALBANY . Stay till I have read the letter . EDGAR . I was forbid it . When time shall serve , let but the herald cry , And I’ll appear again . ALBANY . Why , fare thee well . I will o’erlook thy paper . [ Exit Edgar . ] Enter Edmund . EDMUND . The enemy’s in view ; draw up your powers . Here is the guess of their true strength and forces By diligent discovery ; but your haste Is now urg’d on you . ALBANY . We will greet the time . [ Exit . ] EDMUND . To both these sisters have I sworn my love ; Each jealous of the other , as the stung Are of the adder . Which of them shall I take ? Both ? One ? Or neither ? Neither can be enjoy’d , If both remain alive . To take the widow Exasperates , makes mad her sister Goneril ; And hardly shall I carry out my side , Her husband being alive . Now , then , we’ll use His countenance for the battle ; which being done , Let her who would be rid of him devise His speedy taking off . As for the mercy Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia , The battle done , and they within our power , Shall never see his pardon : for my state Stands on me to defend , not to debate . [ Exit . ] SCENE II . A field between the two Camps Alarum within . Enter with drum and colours , Lear , Cordelia and their Forces , and exeunt . Enter Edgar and Gloucester . EDGAR . Here , father , take the shadow of this tree For your good host ; pray that the right may thrive : If ever I return to you again , I’ll bring you comfort . GLOUCESTER . Grace go with you , sir ! [ Exit Edgar . ] Alarum and retreat within . Enter Edgar . EDGAR . Away , old man , give me thy hand , away ! King Lear hath lost , he and his daughter ta’en : Give me thy hand ; come on ! GLOUCESTER . No further , sir ; a man may rot even here . EDGAR . What , in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence , even as their coming hither ; Ripeness is all . Come on . GLOUCESTER . And that’s true too . [ Exeunt . ] SCENE III . The British Camp near Dover Enter in conquest with drum and colours , Edmund , Lear and Cordelia as prisoners ; Officers , Soldiers , & c . EDMUND . Some officers take them away : good guard Until their greater pleasures first be known That are to censure them .
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