Volume II Part 34 (2/2)

_Edw._ I, and 'tis likewise thought you favour 'em.[237]

_Queen._ Thus do you still suspect me without cause?

_Lady._ Sweet uncle! speak more kindly to the queen.

_Gav._ My lord, dissemble with her, speak her fair.

_Edw._ Pardon me, sweet, I forgot myself.

_Queen._ Your pardon is quickly got of Isabel.

_Edw._ The younger Mortimer is grown so brave, 230 That to my face he threatens civil wars.

_Gav._ Why do you not commit him to the Tower?

_Edw._ I dare not, for the people love him well.

_Gav._ Why then we'll have him privily made away.

_Edw._ Would Lancaster and he had both caroused A bowl of poison to each other's health!

But let them go, and tell me what are these.

_Lady._ Two of my father's servants whilst he liv'd,-- May't please your grace to entertain them now.

_Edw._ Tell me, where wast thou born? what is thine arms? 240

_Bald._ My name is Baldock, and my gentry I fetch from Oxford, not from heraldry.

_Edw._ The fitter art thou, Baldock, for my turn.

Wait on me, and I'll see thou shall not want.

_Bald._ I humbly thank your majesty.

_Edw._ Knowest thou him, Gaveston?

_Gav._ I, my lord; His name is Spencer, he is well allied; For my sake, let him wait upon your grace; Scarce shall you find a man of more desert.

_Edw._ Then, Spencer, wait upon me, for his sake 250 I'll grace thee with a higher style ere long.

_Y. Spen._ No greater t.i.tles happen unto me, Than to be favoured of your majesty.

_Edw._ Cousin, this day shall be your marriage feast.

And, Gaveston, think that I love thee well, To wed thee to our niece, the only heir Unto the Earl of Gloucester late deceased.

_Gav._ I know, my lord, many will stomach me, But I respect neither their love nor hate.

_Edw._ The headstrong barons shall not limit me; 260 He that I list to favour shall be great.

Come, let's away; and when the marriage ends, Have at the rebels, and their 'complices!

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