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EDW2
4 EDWARD II, KEY-PUNCHED IN 1971 FROM THE 1594 EDITION AS FOUND IN
"THE WORKS OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE", EDITED BY C. F. TUCKER BROOKE,
OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1962 EDITION.
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THE TROUBLESOME REIGN AND LAMENTABLE DEATH OF
EDWARD THE SECOND, KING OF ENGLAND, WITH THE TRAGICAL
FALL OF PROUD MORTIMER.
ENTER GAVESTON, READING ON A LETTER THAT
WAS BROUGHT HIM FROM THE KING.
GAV. 'MY FATHER IS DECEASED. 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 FAVORITE OF A KING]
SWEET PRINCE, I COME] THESE, THESE THY AMOROUS LINES
MIGHT HAVE ENFORCED ME TO HAVE SWUM FROM FRANCE,
AND, LIKE LEANDER, GASPED UPON THE SAND,
SO THOU WOULDST SMILE, AND TAKE ME IN THINE ARMS.
THE SIGHT OF LONDON TO MY EXILED EYES
IS AS ELYSIUM TO A NEWCOME SOUL:
NOT THAT I LOVE THE CITY OR THE MEN,
BUT THAT IT HARBORS HIM I HOLD SO DEAR,
THE KING, . . .
