REGAN takes EDMUND as her husband, LEAR and CORDELIA having been defeated and made prisoners. "REG. General, Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony; GON. Mean you to enjoy him? ALB. The let alone lies not in thy goodwill. EDM. Nor in thine, lord. ALB. Half-blooded fellow, yes. Edmund, I arrest thee On capital treason; and, in thy arrest, This gilded serpent: (pointing to GON.)-for your claim, fair sister, I bar it in the interest of my wife; "Tis she is sub-contracted to this lord, And I, her husband, contradict your banns. ACT V. S. 3. XVII. The death of EDMUND.-EDGAR, having found a letter on the Steward from GONERIL, directing EDMUND to murder her husband and take his place, gives the letter to ALBANY, and meets his brother to prove his treason. They fight, EDMUND falls. "GON. This is mere practice, Gloster: In the law of arms, thou wast not bound to answer An unknown opposite; thou art not vanquish'd, But cozen'd and beguiled. ALB. Shut your mouth, dame, Or with this paper I shall stop it: EDG. My name is Edgar, and thy father's son." (REGAN is seen dying in the tent, poisoned by GONERIL.) ACT V. S. 3. XVIII. LEAR killing the officer who had charge from EDMUND to hang CORDELIA. "I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee." ACT V. S. 3. Look up, my lord. KENT. Break, heart-I pr'ythee, break! EDG. EDG. O, he's gone, indeed!" ACT V. S. 3. REGAN and GONERIL both lying dead. "EDM. The one the other poison'd for my sake, And after slew herself." ACT V. S. 3. EDMUND also lies dead. |