Edmund Monologue from King Lear

From King Lear by William Shakespeare

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Look, sir, I bleed. (GLOUCESTER: Where is the villain, Edmund?) Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could,— (GLOUCESTER: Pursue him, ho! Go after. —By no means what?) Persuade me to the murder of your lordship; But that I told him the revenging gods ’Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend; Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond The child was bound to the father; sir, in fine, Seeing how loathly opposite I stood To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion With his prepared sword, he charges home My unprovided body, latch’d mine arm; But when he saw my best alarum’d spirits, Bold in the quarrel’s right, rous’d to th’encounter, Or whether gasted by the noise I made, Full suddenly he fled.

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