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King Lear, III. vii

are not fit for your beholding. Advise the duke,

where you are going, to a most festinate prepara-

tion: we are bound to the like. Our posts shall

be swift and intelligent betwixt us. Farewell,

dear sister: farewell, my Lord of Gloucester.

How now? Where's the king?

Osw. My Lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence:

Some five or six and thirty of his knights,

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.

Corn. Get horses for your mistress.

Gon. Farewell, sweet lord, and sister.

Corn. Edmund, farewell.

Go seek the traitor Gloucester,

Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us.

Though well we may not pass upon his life

Without the form of justice, yet our power

Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men

May blame but not control. Who's there? The traitor?

Reg. Ingrateful fox! 'tis he.

Corn. Bind fast his corky arms.

Glo. What mean your Graces? Good my friends, consider

You are my guests: do me no foul play, friends.

 10 festinate: speedy

17 questrists: searchers

29 corky: dry, withered

