Die: die for adultery! no:
The wren goes to ‘t, and the small gilded fly
Does lecher in my sight.
Let copulation thrive.
– William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6. Lear pardons Gloucester for his crime of adultery, saying that he shouldn’t die for it, that the birds and the flies do it. Still morally blind, Lear excuses adultery and goes on to say that Gloucester’s bastard son was kinder to his father than were Lear’s daughters who were conceived in lawful marriage: "Gloucester’s bastard son Was kinder to his father than my daughters Got ‘tween the lawful sheets." This is ironic because Edmund was the one behind Gloucester’s downfall.