Page 1925 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

But who was this?

EDGAR
Kent, sir, the banish’d Kent; who in disguise
Follow’d his enemy king, and did him service
Improper for a slave. [220]

Enter a Gentleman, with a bloody knife.

GENTLEMAN

Help, help! O, help!

EDGAR

What kind of help?

ALBANY
Speak, man.

EDGAR
What means this bloody knife?

GENTLEMAN
’Tis hot, it smokes;
It came even from the heart of − O! she’s dead.

ALBANY
Who dead? speak, man.

GENTLEMAN
Your lady, sir, your lady: and her sister [225]

By her is poison’d; she confesses it.

EDMUND
I was contracted to them both: all three
Now marry in an instant.

EDGAR