The Works of Christopher Marlowe

Edward II


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.