Internet Shakespeare Editions

Author: Samuel Daniel
Editor: Rosemary Gaby
Peer Reviewed

The Civil Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York (Selection)

107

But now begin these fury-moving sounds

The notes of wrath that music brought from hell,

The rattling drums which trumpets' voice confounds,

180

The cries, th'encouragements, the shouting shrill;

That all about the beaten air rebounds,

Thundring confused, murmurs horrible,

To rob all sense except the sense to fight,

Well hands may work, the mind hath lost his sight.