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- Act 3 Scene 5
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- Edmond has betrayed his father to Cornwall, who
- orders GloucesterÆs arrest.
- 2 how . . . censured: what people will
- think.
- nature: my natural feelings as a son.
- 3 loyalty: sense of duty to the ruler.
- something fears me: I am rather frightened.
- 6 seek his death: want to kill him.
- 7, 8 provoking . . . himself: CornwallÆs
- language is deliberately involved; he seems to be
- saying that Edgar was guilty of a wickedness (ôa
- reprovable badnessö) which had encouraged him
- to wish that his father should die the kind of death
- (i.e. a traitorÆs death) which Gloucester did in fact
- deserve (ômeritö).
- 10 just: righteous (in revealing his fatherÆs
- apparent treachery). approves: proves him to be.
- 11 intelligent party: spy, providing
- intelligence.
- the advantages: the assistance.
- 12 were not: had not happened.
- 15 this paper. i.e. the letter that Gloucester
- was reading in Scene 3. certain: correct.
- 17, 18 made . . . Gloucester. EdmondÆs plans
- (see 3, 3, 22) seem to have worked.
- 19 apprehension: arrest.
- 20 comforting: giving assistance (to a
- known traitor).
- 22 persever: continue; the accent is on the
- second syllable ù ôpersΦverö.
- 23 sore: sharp.
- 23 blood: natural feelings.
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