At this time
We sweat and bleed: the friend hath lost his
friend;
And
the best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed
By
those that feel their sharpness:--
-Edmund
King Lear Act V, Scene iii, Line 56
Edmund is talking about the situation that exists after a battle is done, and a battle has indeed just been fought. It really is a very fine couple of lines, and it is an apt description, except for the fact that Edmund has no friends and is probably not experiencing any of this sharpness that he speaks of. He’s just saying this to put off Albany when the latter tells Edmund to present the prisoners, Lear and Cordelia. Edmund doesn’t want to present them, because he’s just sent them off to be surreptitiously murdered.
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