Internet Shakespeare Editions

Author: Samuel Daniel
Editor: Rosemary Gaby
Peer Reviewed

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

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Then those two helps which still such actors find,

Pretense of common good, the king's disgrace,

Doth fit their course, and draw the vulgar mind

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To further them and aid them in this case:

The king they accus'd for cruel, and unkind

That did the state, and crown, and all deface;

A perjured man that held all faith in scorn,

Whose trusted oaths had others made forsworn.