Quotes

• Act One Scene One - 'these thy amorous lines' (Gaveston)
• Act One Scene One - 'My knee shall bow to none but to the King' (Gaveston)
• Act One Scene One - 'As for the multitude, that are but sparks raked up in embers of their poverty' (Gaveston)
• Act One Scene One - 'may draw the pliant king which way i please' (Gaveston)
• Act One Scene One - 'why do you thus incense your peers that naturally would love and honour you' (Lancaster)
• Act One Scene One - 'base and obscure Gaveston' (Lancaster)
• Act One Scene One - 'brainsick king' (Mortimer Junior)
• Act One Scene One - 'either change your mind, or look to see the throne where you should sit to float in blood' (Lancaster)
• Act One Scene One - 'I'll bandy with the barons and the earls and either die or live with Gaveston' (Edward II)

  Bandy - give and take blows
• Act One Scene One - 'I here create thee Lord High Chamberlain, Chief Secretary to the state and me, Earl of Cornwall, King and Lord of Man' (Edward II)
• Act One Scene One - 'Thy worth sweet friend, is far above my gifts, therefore to equal it, receive my heart' (Edward II)
• Act One Scene One - 'a prison may beseem his holiness' (Gaveston)
• Act One Scene One - 'Throw off his golden mitre, rend his stole' (Edward II)


  On stage - assaults Coventry
• Act One Scene Two - 'This ground which is corrupted with their steps shall be their timeless sepulchre' (Lancaster)


  'timeless sepulchre' - eternal prison
• Act One Scene Two - 'Peevish Frenchman' (Mortimer Junior)
• Act One Scene Two - 'Swoll'n with venom of ambitious pride' (Mortimer Junior about Gaveston)
• Act One Scene Two - 'Sly inveigling Frenchman' (Mortimer Junior)
• Act One Scene Two - 'For now my Lord the King regards me not' (Isabella)
• Act One Scene Two - 'Then let him stay... I will endure a melancholy life' (Isabella)
• Act One Scene Four - 'Can kingly lions fawn on creeping ants' (Pembroke)
• Act One Scene Four - 'Were I a king' (Gaveston)
• Act One Scene Four - 'Because he loves me more than all the world' (Edward II)
• Act One Scene Four - 'If i be king, not one of them shall live' (Edward II)
• Act One Scene Four - 'My love shall ne'er decline' (Edward II)
• Act One Scene Four - 'French strumpet' (Edward II about Isabella)


  strumpet = prostitute
• Act One Scene Four - 'your Highness knows it lies not in my power' (Isabella)
• Act One Scene Four - 'And so am i forever miserable' (Isabella)
• Act One Scene Four - 'Cry quittance, madam, then; and love not him' (Mortimer Junior)


  'No, rather will i die a thousand deaths' (Isabella)
• Act One Scene Four - 'Tis for myself I speak, not for him' (Isabella)
• Act One Scene Four - 'Vile torpedo, Gaveston' (Mortimer Junior)
• Act One Scene Four - 'in no respect can contraries be true' (Lancaster)
• Act One Scene Four - 'night-grown mushroom' (Mortimer Junior)
• Act One Scene Four - 'But will you love me if you find it so?' (Isabella)
• Act One Scene Four - 'midas-like' (Mortimer Junior)


  (about Gaveston) Midas was king of Phrygia who was granted the power to turn all that he touched to gold
• Act One Scene Four - 'While I have a sword, a hand, a heart, I will not yield to any such upstart' (Mortimer Junior)
• Act Two Scene One - 'But he that hath the favour of a king may with one word advance us while we live' (Spencer)
• Act Two Scene One - 'He loves me well and would have once preferred me to the king' (Spencer)
• Act Two Scene One - 'You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute and now and then, stab as occasion serves' (Spencer)
• Act Two Scene Two - 'You have matters of more weight to think upon' (Mortimer Junior)
• Act Two Scene Two - 'A lofty cedar tree fair flourishing... And by the bark a canker creeps me up' (Mortimer Junior)


  cedar tree - symbol of the structure of society with the king represented by the highest bough

  canker - worm which consumes plants (Gaveston)