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The Civil Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York (Selection)
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193And O, how well thou hadst been spar'd this day
Had not wrong-counsel'd Percy been perverse,
Whose young undanger'd hand now rash makes way
Upon the sharpest fronts of the most fierce:
Where now an equal fury thrusts to stay
And rebeat-back that force and his disperse,
Then these assail, then those chase back again,
Till stayed with new-made hills of bodies slain.