"My name is Baldock, and my gentry
I fetched from Oxford, not from heraldry."
(Edward II II.ii.242-43)
This is an obvious statement with no hidden meanings. Baldock has earned his title as a "gentleman" by attending University of Oxford and becoming both a tutor and cleric. Like Gaveston, he was not born into a privileged life, so it is no wonder why the King instantly approves of Baldock. Anything resembling Gaveston in the slightest would probably be enough to make the King delirious with pleasure; it's sickening, really, how he easily dismisses the quandaries of his country (calls it a "trifle" in 2.2.10) because he is so frenzied with happiness about seeing Gaveston again. It seriously would not vex me to see the emasculated King assassinated in the future, which I definitely foresee happening.
Conversation Piece - Monday, December 8, 2008
"Oh, come not near me, sir; I shall defile you.
I am that of your blood was taken from you
For your better health. Look no more upon't
But cast it to the ground regardlessly;
Let the common sewer take it from distinction.
Beneath the stars, upon yon meteor
Ever hung my fate, 'mongst things corruptible;
I ne'er could pluck it from him. My loathing
Was prophet to the rest, bu ne'er believed;
Mine honor fell with him, and now my life."
(The Changeling V.iii.158-67)
I am that of your blood was taken from you
For your better health. Look no more upon't
But cast it to the ground regardlessly;
Let the common sewer take it from distinction.
Beneath the stars, upon yon meteor
Ever hung my fate, 'mongst things corruptible;
I ne'er could pluck it from him. My loathing
Was prophet to the rest, bu ne'er believed;
Mine honor fell with him, and now my life."
(The Changeling V.iii.158-67)
