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it were his: but in respect of that, I would faine thinke it
were not

Glou. It is his

Bast. It is his hand, my Lord: but I hope his heart is
not in the Contents

Glo. Has he neuer before sounded you in this busines?
Bast. Neuer my Lord. But I haue heard him oft maintaine
it to be fit, that Sonnes at perfect age, and Fathers
declin'd, the Father should bee as Ward to the Son, and
the Sonne manage his Reuennew

Glou. O Villain, villain: his very opinion in the Letter.
Abhorred Villaine, vnnaturall, detested, brutish
Villaine; worse then brutish: Go sirrah, seeke him: Ile
apprehend him. Abhominable Villaine, where is he?
Bast. I do not well know my L[ord]. If it shall please you to
suspend your indignation against my Brother, til you can
deriue from him better testimony of his intent, you shold
run a certaine course: where, if you violently proceed against
him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great
gap in your owne Honor, and shake in peeces, the heart of
his obedience. I dare pawne downe my life for him, that
he hath writ this to feele my affection to your Honor, &
to no other pretence of danger

Glou. Thinke you so?
Bast. If your Honor iudge it meete, I will place you
where you shall heare vs conferre of this, and by an Auricular
assurance haue your satisfaction, and that without
any further delay, then this very Euening

Glou. He cannot bee such a Monster. Edmond seeke
him out: winde me into him, I pray you: frame the Businesse
after your owne wisedome. I would vnstate my
selfe, to be in a due resolution

Bast. I will seeke him Sir, presently: conuey the businesse
as I shall find meanes, and acquaint you withall

Glou. These late Eclipses in the Sun and Moone portend
no good to vs: though the wisedome of Nature can
reason it thus, and thus, yet Nature finds it selfe scourg'd
by the sequent effects. Loue cooles, friendship falls off,
Brothers diuide. In Cities, mutinies; in Countries, discord;
in Pallaces, Treason; and the Bond crack'd, 'twixt
Sonne and Father. This villaine of mine comes vnder the
prediction; there's Son against Father, the King fals from
byas of Nature, there's Father against Childe. We haue
seene the best of our time. Machinations, hollownesse,
treacherie, and all ruinous disorders follow vs disquietly
to our Graues. Find out this Villain, Edmond, it shall lose
thee nothing, do it carefully: and the Noble & true-harted
Kent banish'd; his offence, honesty. 'Tis strange.

Exit

Bast. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that
when we are sicke in fortune, often the surfets of our own
behauiour, we make guilty of our disasters, the Sun, the
Moone, and Starres, as if we were villaines on necessitie,
Fooles by heauenly compulsion, Knaues, Theeues, and
Treachers by Sphericall predominance. Drunkards, Lyars,
and Adulterers by an inforc'd obedience of Planatary
influence; and all that we are euill in, by a diuine thrusting
on. An admirable euasion of Whore-master-man,
to lay his Goatish disposition on the charge of a Starre,
My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons
taile, and my Natiuity was vnder Vrsa Maior, so
that it followes, I am rough and Leacherous. I should
haue bin that I am, had the maidenlest Starre in the Firmament
twinkled on my bastardizing.
Enter Edgar.

Pat: he comes like the Catastrophe of the old Comedie:
my Cue is villanous Melancholly, with a sighe like Tom
o' Bedlam. - O these Eclipses do portend these diuisions.
Fa, Sol, La, Me

Edg. How now Brother Edmond, what serious contemplation
are you in?
Bast. I am thinking Brother of a prediction I read this
other day, what should follow these Eclipses

Edg. Do you busie your selfe with that?
Bast. I promise you, the effects he writes of, succeede
vnhappily.
When saw you my Father last?
Edg. The night gone by

Bast. Spake you with him?
Edg. I, two houres together

Bast. Parted you in good termes? Found you no displeasure
in him, by word, nor countenance?
Edg. None at all,
Bast. Bethink your selfe wherein you may haue offended
him: and at my entreaty forbeare his presence, vntill

it were his: but in respect of that, I would faine thinke it

were not

Glou. It is his

Bast. It is his hand, my Lord: but I hope his heart is

not in the Contents

Glo. Has he neuer before sounded you in this busines?

Bast. Neuer my Lord. But I haue heard him oft maintaine

it to be fit, that Sonnes at perfect age, and Fathers

declin'd, the Father should bee as Ward to the Son, and

the Sonne manage his Reuennew

Glou. O Villain, villain: his very opinion in the Letter.

Abhorred Villaine, vnnaturall, detested, brutish

Villaine; worse then brutish: Go sirrah, seeke him: Ile

apprehend him. Abhominable Villaine, where is he?

Bast. I do not well know my L[ord]. If it shall please you to

suspend your indignation against my Brother, til you can

deriue from him better testimony of his intent, you shold

run a certaine course: where, if you violently proceed against

him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great

gap in your owne Honor, and shake in peeces, the heart of

his obedience. I dare pawne downe my life for him, that

he hath writ this to feele my affection to your Honor, &

to no other pretence of danger

Glou. Thinke you so?

Bast. If your Honor iudge it meete, I will place you

where you shall heare vs conferre of this, and by an Auricular

assurance haue your satisfaction, and that without

any further delay, then this very Euening

Glou. He cannot bee such a Monster. Edmond seeke

him out: winde me into him, I pray you: frame the Businesse

after your owne wisedome. I would vnstate my

selfe, to be in a due resolution

Bast. I will seeke him Sir, presently: conuey the businesse

as I shall find meanes, and acquaint you withall

Glou. These late Eclipses in the Sun and Moone portend

no good to vs: though the wisedome of Nature can

reason it thus, and thus, yet Nature finds it selfe scourg'd

by the sequent effects. Loue cooles, friendship falls off,

Brothers diuide. In Cities, mutinies; in Countries, discord;

in Pallaces, Treason; and the Bond crack'd, 'twixt

Sonne and Father. This villaine of mine comes vnder the

prediction; there's Son against Father, the King fals from

byas of Nature, there's Father against Childe. We haue

seene the best of our time. Machinations, hollownesse,

treacherie, and all ruinous disorders follow vs disquietly

to our Graues. Find out this Villain, Edmond, it shall lose

thee nothing, do it carefully: and the Noble & true-harted

Kent banish'd; his offence, honesty. 'Tis strange.

Exit

Bast. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that

when we are sicke in fortune, often the surfets of our own

behauiour, we make guilty of our disasters, the Sun, the

Moone, and Starres, as if we were villaines on necessitie,

Fooles by heauenly compulsion, Knaues, Theeues, and

Treachers by Sphericall predominance. Drunkards, Lyars,

and Adulterers by an inforc'd obedience of Planatary

influence; and all that we are euill in, by a diuine thrusting

on. An admirable euasion of Whore-master-man,

to lay his Goatish disposition on the charge of a Starre,

My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons

taile, and my Natiuity was vnder Vrsa Maior, so

that it followes, I am rough and Leacherous. I should

haue bin that I am, had the maidenlest Starre in the Firmament

twinkled on my bastardizing.

Enter Edgar.

Pat: he comes like the Catastrophe of the old Comedie:

my Cue is villanous Melancholly, with a sighe like Tom

o' Bedlam. - O these Eclipses do portend these diuisions.

Fa, Sol, La, Me

Edg. How now Brother Edmond, what serious contemplation

are you in?

Bast. I am thinking Brother of a prediction I read this

other day, what should follow these Eclipses

Edg. Do you busie your selfe with that?

Bast. I promise you, the effects he writes of, succeede

vnhappily.

When saw you my Father last?

Edg. The night gone by

Bast. Spake you with him?

Edg. I, two houres together

Bast. Parted you in good termes? Found you no displeasure

in him, by word, nor countenance?

Edg. None at all,

Bast. Bethink your selfe wherein you may haue offended

him: and at my entreaty forbeare his presence, vntill