Internet Shakespeare Editions

Author: Samuel Daniel
Editor: Rosemary Gaby
Peer Reviewed

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

115

But now the King retires him to his peace,

A peace much like a feeble sickman's sleep,

(Wherein his waking pains do never cease

Though seeming rest his closed eyes doth keep)

245

For O, no peace could ever so release

His intricate turmoils, and sorrows deep,

But that his cares kept waking all his life

Continue on till death conclude the strife.