Edmund, how now? What news?

Gloucester
Edmund, how now? What news?
Edmund
So please your Lordship, none.
He puts a paper in his pocket.
Gloucester
Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?
Edmund
I know no news, my lord.
Gloucester
What paper were you reading?
Edmund
Nothing, my lord.
Gloucester
No? What needed then that terrible dispatch
of it into your pocket? The quality of nothing
hath not such need to hide itself. Let's see. Come, if
it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles.
Edmund
I beseech you, sir, pardon me. It is a letter
from my brother that I have not all o'erread; and
for so much as I have perused, I find it not fit for
your o'erlooking.
Gloucester
Give me the letter, sir.
Edmund
I shall offend either to detain or give it. The
contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame.
Gloucester
Let's see, let's see.
Edmund gives him the paper.
Edmund
I hope, for my brother's justification, he
wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.