Page 1868 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

How now! where’s the King?

OSWALD
My Lord of Gloucester hath convey’d him hence:
Some five or six and thirty of his knights, [15]
Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;
Who, with some other of the Lord’s dependants,

Are gone with him toward Dover, where they boast
To have well-armed friends.

CORNWALL
Get horses for your mistress.

GONERIL
Farewell, sweet Lord, and sister. [20]

CORNWALL
Edmund, farewell.

(Exeunt Goneril, Edmund, and Oswald.)
Go seek the traitor Gloucester,
Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us.
(Exeunt other Servants.)

Though well we may not pass upon his life
Without the form of justice, yet our power
Shall do a court’sy to our wrath, which men [25]
May blame but not control. Who’s there? The traitor?

Re-enter Servants, with Gloucester prisoner.

REGAN
Ingrateful fox! ’tis he.

CORNWALL
Bind fast his corky arms.

GLOUCESTER
What means your Graces? Good my friends, consider