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If this letter thrive,
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Edmund the bastard
shall top the legitimate.
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Legitimate Edgar,
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I must have your land.
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Now, gods,
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stand up for bastards!
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Father!
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I swore he could by no means.
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By no means what?
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Persuade me
to the murder
of your lordship.
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I told him the revenging
gods 'gainst parricides
did all the thunder bend;
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spoke with how strong a bond
the child was bound to th' father.
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My son Edgar.
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I threaten'd
to discover him.
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He replied,
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"Who would
put any trust
or faith in thee,
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"thou unpossessing
bastard?"
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He cannot be
such a monster,
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to his father
that so tenderly
and entirely loves him.
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I dare pawn down
my life for him.
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He's done this
to feel my affection
to your honour,
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and no other
pretence of danger.
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Think you so?
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Has he never before
sounded you
in this matter?
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I have heard him
maintain it to be fit
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that sons at perfect age
and fathers in decline,
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the father should be
put in care of the son,