Internet Shakespeare Editions

Author: Samuel Daniel
Editor: Rosemary Gaby
Peer Reviewed

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

88

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What cause soever were, strong was their plot,

Their parties great, means good, th'occasion fit:

Their practice close, their faith suspected not,

Their states far off and they of wary wit

Who with large promises draw in the Scot

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To aid their cause, he likes, and yields to it,

Not for the love of them or for their good,

But glad hereby of means to shed our blood.