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The Works of Christopher Marlowe

Edward II

Act: 2 Scene: 5

My lords, king Edward greetes you all by me.

His majesty,

Hearing that you had taken Gaveston,

Intreateth you by me, yet but he may

See him before he dies, for why he saies,

And sends you word, he knowes that die he shall,

And if you gratifie his grace so farre,

He will be mindfull of the curtesie.

Then if you will not trust his grace in keepe;

My lords, I will be pledge for his returne.

My lord of Lancaster, what say you in this ?

Tis verie kindlie spoke my lord of Penbrooke,

Your honor hath an adamant, of power

To drawe a prince.

Act: 3 Scene: 1

Yea my good lord, for Gaveston is dead.

I found them at the first inexorable,

The earle of Warwick would not bide the hearing,

Mortimer hardly, Penbrooke and Lancaster

Spake least: and when they flatly had denyed,

Refusing to receive me pledge for him,

The earle of Penbrooke mildlie thus bespake.

My lords, because our soveraigne sends for him,

And promiseth he shall be safe returnd,

I will this undertake, to have him hence,

And see him redelivered to your hands.

The earle of Warwick seazde him on his way,

For being delivered unto Penbrookes men,

Their lord rode home, thinking his prisoner safe,

But ere he came, Warwick in ambush laie,

And bare him to his death, and in a trenche

Strake off his head, and marcht unto the campe.

Act: 4 Scene: 3

From the lieutenant of the tower my lord.