By Bertolt Brecht
This is publicly provided the historical past of the not easy reign of Edward II, King of britain, and his lamentable dying.
Also the fortune and finish of his favourite, Gaveston.
Further, the harassed destiny of Queen Anne.
Likewise the increase and fall of the good earl, Roger Mortimer; all of which occurred in England, mainly in London, 600 years in the past.
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MORTIMER : My instructions, or s o I feel, give off a faint Odor of carrion. The moon sucks blood like mist and all these peers Have faces that smack of death, while I Who know what's what and pay no heed to moons, Am j ust a lump of cowardice. One man suffices to dispatch him who could Dispatch a thousand. So, frightened like one burned to death, I wrap myself in the skin of another man : This butcher's son. Toward ten at night. ANNE (alone ) : Oh , most u nhappy Queen ! Oh, how I wish that when I left fair France The waters of the Channel had turned to stone !
MORTIMER : Do not hang Gaveston but do not send him either. Bertolt Brecht 28 ARCHBISHO P : The king's wish must be executed but So, maybe, m ust the king's friend. LANCAS TER : Skin Any Now Wife him, you 'd say, but don't refuse him small courtesy. Very well . let's do battle with this Edward Gloster of the butcher's son. ARCHBISHOP : Cut him loose. And you, Lord Mortimer, take charge of him. GAVESTON : One watch of the night to go, two paths to tread. My death I carry with me l ike my moon. JAMES : - Much fuss about a simple butcher's son !
So God be with you, sirs. SE COND : God? ( to the SECOND ) : E n gland pays nothing for old soldiers, friend. FIRST GAVESTON : England provides St. James's Hospital. FIRST : Where a fellow can kick the bucket. GAVESTON : To kick the bucket is the soldier's fate. SECOND : It is, is it? Then may you croak, yourself, in this England! And may you fall by a soldier's hand! Both leave. GAVESTON ( alone): Sounds j ust like my father. Well! Should a goose preten d to be a porcupine . And stick its feathers into me imagining It could pierce my breast with them It would hurt me about as much as this Chap's words.