Edmund UNFINISHED

‘it is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is not in the contents’ (to Gloucester about Edgar) 1.2 68-69

‘Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land’ 1.2

‘Nature art my goddess’ 1.2 1

‘in the lusty stealth of nature… a dull, stale tired bed’ 1.2 11

‘why brand they us with base? with baseness? bastardy? base? base?’ 1.2 15

‘when my dimensions are as well-compact, my mind as generous and my shape as true’ 1.2 7

‘thou Nature art my goddess’ 1.2 12

‘we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, the stars, as if we were villains on necessity’

‘now gods stand up for bastards!’ 1.2 22

‘wherefore should I stand in the plague of custom?’ 1.2 2-3

‘I may be censure that nature thus gives way to loyalty’ (to Cornwall about his betrayal of Gloucester and Edgar) 3.5 2-3

‘the dark and vicious place where thee he got’ (about his mother) 5.3 170

‘the wheel is come full circle; I am’ 5.3

‘my sickness grows upon me’ 5.3