SceneI

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Scene

I

Near the Tower of London.

Enter Kent.

Kent

Fair blows the wind for France: blow, gentle gale,

Till Edmund be arrived for England’s good!

Nature, yield to my country’s cause in this!

A brother? no, a butcher of thy friends!

Proud Edward, dost thou banish me thy presence?

But I’ll to France, and cheer the wronged queen,

And certify what Edward’s looseness is.

Unnatural king, to slaughter nobleman

And cherish flatterers! Mortimer, I stay

Thy sweet escape. Stand gracious, gloomy night,

To his device.

Enter the Younger Mortimer disguised.

Younger Mortimer

Holla! who walketh there?

Is’t you, my lord?

Kent

Mortimer, ’tis I.

But hath thy portion wrought so happily?

Younger Mortimer

It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep,

I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.

But hath your grace got shipping unto France?

Kent

Fear it not.

Exeunt.