Spencer Junior
Then, Baldock, you must cast the scholar off,
And learn to court it like a gentleman.
’Tis not a black coat and a little band,
A velvet-cap’d coat, fac’d before with serge,
And smelling to a nosegay all the day,
Or holding of a napkin in your hand,
Or saying a long grace at a table’s end,
Or making low legs to a nobleman,
Or looking downward with your eyelids close,
And saying, “Truly, an’t may please your honour,”
Can get you any favour with great men;
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab, as occasion serves.
Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Scene 5 Lines 31-43
Here we encounter yet another character that is ready to fall into power by any means necessary which includes faking who they really are. It seems that in order to gain power you must be a great flatter and know exactly who you need to be in good terms with. Spencer understands that if he wants to be the Kings next right hand man he must be everything Edward wants in a man. He can be called an opportunist and later rises in power which lasts a short period of time before he is killed.
