Not to reuoke, whom he had banished.

21.

His bones were yet scarce cold, his royall throne

Scarce warme beneath me was, when in the same

I did embrace my deare, lou’d Gaueston,

Who as infected with contagious shame

Of some corrupted place, from whence he came,

Throughout the land in little space did spread,

That foule disease which our destruction bread.

22.