Enter Cornwall and Edmund. [CORNWALL]: I will have my revenge ere I depart his house. [EDMUND]: How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think of. [CORNWALL]: I now perceive it was not altogether your brother’s evil disposition made him seek his death; but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reproveable badness in himself. [EDMUND]: How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to be just! This is the letter 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]: Go with me to the Duchess. [EDMUND]: If the matter of this paper be certain, you have mighty business in hand. [CORNWALL]: True or false, it hath made thee Earl of Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our apprehension. [_Aside._] If I find him comforting the King, it will stuff his [EDMUND]: suspicion more fully. I will persever in my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and my blood. [CORNWALL]: I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love. [_Exeunt._]