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ACT II IT

Scene I IT

(A Court within the Castle of the Earl of Gloucester.)

Enter Edmund and Curan, meeting.

EDMUND
Save thee, Curan.

CURAN
And you, sir. I have been with your father, and given him notice that the
Duke of Cornwall and Regan his Duchess will be here with him this night.

EDMUND
How comes that? [5]

CURAN
Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad? I mean the whisper’d

ones, for they are yet but ear-bussing arguments.

EDMUND
Not I: pray you, what are they?

CURAN
Have you heard of no likely wars toward, ’twixt the [10] Dukes of Cornwall
and Albany?

EDMUND
Not a word.

CURAN