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predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers
by an enforc’d obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by
a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his
goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with [125]

my mother under the dragon’s tail, and my nativity was under Ursa major; so
that it follows I am rough and lecherous.
Fut! I should have been that I am had the maidenliest star in the firmament
twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar −

Enter Edgar.
and pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy: [130] my cue is
villanous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o’ Bedlam. O! these eclipses do
portend these divisions. Fa, sol, la, mi.

EDGAR
How now, brother Edmund! What serious contemplation are you in? [135]

EDMUND
I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other day, what should
follow these eclipses.

EDGAR
Do you busy yourself with that?

EDMUND
I promise you the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness
between the child and the [140] parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient

amities; divisions in state; menaces and maledictions against King and
nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts,
nuptial breaches, and I know not what. [145]

EDGAR
How long have you been a sectary astronomical?

EDMUND
When saw you my father last?

EDGAR