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- # KING LEAR
## ACT I.
### SCENE I.—An Anti-chamber in King Lear's Palace.
*Enter Edmund, R.H.*
**Edm.** Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law
My services are bound: why am I then
Depriv'd of a son's right, because I came not
In the dull road that custom has prescrib'd?
**Why bastard?** Wherefore base? when I can boast
A mind as gen'rous, and a shape as true
As honest madam's issue? Why are we
Held base, who in the lusty stealth of Nature
Take fiercer qualities than what compound
The scanted births of the stale marriage-bed
Well, then, legitimate Edgar, to thy right
Of law I will oppose a bastard's cunning.
Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund
As to the legitimate Edgar; with success
I've practis'd yet on both their easy natures.—
Here comes the old man, chaf'd with the information
Which last I forg'd against my brother Edgar;
A tale so plausible, so boldly utter'd,
And heighten'd by such lucky accidents,
That now the slightest circumstance confirms him,
And base-born Edmund, spite of law, inherits.
*(Retires a little, R.H.)*
*Enter Kent and Gloster, L.H.*
**Glost.** Nay, good my lord, your charity
O'ershoots itself, to plead in his behalf;
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