Lancaster
My lord, mine’s more obscure than Mortimer’s.
Pliny reports there is a flying fish
Which all the other fishes deadly hate,
And therefore, being pursued, it takes the air:
No sooner is it up, but there’s a fowl
That seizeth it; this fish, my lord, I bear:
The motto this: Undique mors est.
Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Scene 6 Lines 22-28
Here Lancaster shows his disdain for King Edward and how his current decisions are hurting England. Without putting it in plain terms, Lancaster describes how Gaveston is bad news for Edward and how he needs to get rid of him. We get to see how Edward is not as in control of his subjects as he should be for them to even think of undermining his authority. This shows how Edward is at a constant power struggle between him and his subject, but doesn’t show true interest in getting control of them until it is too late.
