Page 1817 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

GLOUCESTER

Stop, stop! No help?

EDMUND
Now, Edmund, where’s the villain?
Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,
Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon

To stand auspicious mistress.

GLOUCESTER
But where is he?

EDMUND
Look, Sir, I bleed.

GLOUCESTER
Where is the villain, Edmund? [40]

EDMUND
Fled this way, Sir, when by no means he could −

GLOUCESTER
Pursue him, ho! Go after.
(Exeunt some Servants.)

‘By no means’ what?

EDMUND
Persuade me to the murther of your lordship;
But that I told him, the revenging Gods
’Gainst parricides did all the thunder bend; [45]

Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond
The child was bound to th’father; Sir, in fine,
Seeing how loathly opposite I stood
To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion,

With his prepared sword he charges home [50]
My unprovided body, lanch’d mine arm:
And when he saw my best alarum’d spirits