Gaveston
I thank you all, my lords: then I perceive,
That heading is one, and hanging is the other,
And death is all.
Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Scene 9 Lines 29-31
Gaveston is being sentenced to death by the nobles and realizes that it doesn’t matter how he dies because death doesn’t know the difference. Although heading was deemed a noble death, death is death in the end. This also shows that the nobles did have some consideration when it came to the King. Since he is the King’s favorite they turn for a more noble death which is later left by the wayside.
