Edward the Second

Produced by Gustavo Daniel Queipo
By Christopher Marlowe
KING EDWARD THE SECOND. PRINCE EDWARD, his son, afterwards KING EDWARD THE THIRD. KENT, brother to KING EDWARD THE SECOND. GAVESTON. ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. BISHOP OF COVENTRY. BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. WARWICK. LANCASTER. PEMBROKE. ARUNDER. LEICESTER. BERKELEY. MORTIMER the elder. MORTIMER the younger, his nephew. SPENSER the elder. SPENSER the younger, his son. BALDOCK. BAUMONT. TRUSSEL. GURNEY. MATREVIS. LIGHTBORN. SIR JOHN OF HAINAULT. LEVUNE. RICE AP HOWEL. ABBOT. MONKS. HERALD. LORDS, POOR MEN, JAMES, MOWER, CHAMPION, MESSENGERS, SOLDIERS, and ATTENDANTS.
QUEEN ISABELLA, wife to KING EDWARD THE SECOND. NIECE to KING EDWARD THE SECOND, _daughter to the DUKE OF GLOCESTER. LADIES.
Enter GAVESTON, reading a letter.
Gav. My father is deceas'd. Come, Gaveston, And share the kingdom with thy dearest friend. Ah, words that make me surfeit with delight! What greater bliss can hap to Gaveston Than live and be the favourite of a king! Sweet prince, I come! these, thy amorous lines Might have enforc'd me to have swum from France, And, like Leander, gasp'd upon the sand, So thou wouldst smile, and take me in thine arms. The sight of London to my exil'd eyes Is as Elysium to a new-come soul: Not that I love the city or the men, But that it harbours him I hold so dear,— The king, upon whose bosom let me lie, And with the world be still at enmity. What need the arctic people love star-light, To whom the sun shines both by day and night? Farewell base stooping to the lordly peers! My knee shall bow to none but to the king. As for the multitude, that are but sparks, Rak'd up in embers of their poverty,— Tanti, —I'll fawn first on the wind, That glanceth at my lips, and flieth away.
Enter three Poor Men.
Enter KING EDWARD, KENT, LANCASTER, the elder MORTIMER, the younger MORTIMER, WARWICK, PEMBROKE, and Attendants.
Enter the BISHOP OF COVENTRY.
Enter, on one side, the elder MORTIMER, and the younger MORTIMER; on the other, WARWICK, and LANCASTER.