Internet Shakespeare Editions

Author: Samuel Daniel
Editor: Rosemary Gaby
Peer Reviewed

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

109

And O, how well thou hadst been spar'd this day

Had not wrong-counsel'd Percy been perverse,

195

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,

200

Till stayed with new-made hills of bodies slain.