Actaeon and his Hounds

"Sometime a lovely boy in Dian's shape,
With hair that gilds the water as it glides,
Crownets of pearl about his naked arms,
And in his sportful hands an olive tree
To hide those parts which men delight to see,
Shall bathe him in a spring, and there hard by
One like Actaeon peeping through the grove
Shall by the angry goddess be transformed,
And running in the likeness of an hart
By yelping hounds pulled down and seem to die." (I.1.60-69)

I think that this is a parallelism to what is going on in the play. King Edward is in love with Gaveston; in case the mention of "sweet Gaveston" at least three times in Act I is not convincing enough, Mortimer Sr. makes this clear in I.1.388-400. The "lovely boy" is Gaveston, who is being gazed upon by "Actaeon," or King Edward. This kind of love will lead to King Edward's downfall, where he will be pulled down by the "hounds" in his court (i.e Mortimer Sr, Jr, Lancaster, Warwick). This foreshadows the death of King Edward in the future. It is a bit ironic that Gaveston, who also loves Edward, is plotting this masked play in hopes of pleasing the King, when it is this very play that portends the King's doom.