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

  • Copyright Rosemary Gaby. This text may be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes; for all other uses contact the Editor.
    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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    Straight moves with equal motion equal rage

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    The like incensed armies unto blood,

    One to defend, another side to wage

    Foul civil war. Both vows their quarrel good:

    Ah, too much heat to blood doth now enrage

    Both who the deed provokes and who withstood,

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    That valor here is vice, here manhood sin,

    The forward'st hands doth, O, least honor win.