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  • Title: The Civil Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York (Selection)
  • Editor: Rosemary Gaby

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    Author: Samuel Daniel
    Editor: Rosemary Gaby
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    The Civil Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York (Selection)

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    "Yet since that other men's iniquity

    Calls on the sword of wrath against my will,

    And that themselves exact this cruelty,

    And I constrained am this blood to spill:

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    Then on, my masters, on courageously,

    True-hearted subjects against traitors ill,

    And spare not them who seek to spoil us all,

    Whose foul confused end soon see you shall."