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The Civil Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York (Selection)
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73Thus doth contentious proud mortality
Afflict each other and itself torment:
And thus, O thou mind-tort[u]ring misery
Restless ambition, born in discontent,
Turn'st and retossest with iniquity
The unconstant courses frailty did invent:
And foul'st fair order and defil'st the earth
Fost[e]ring up war, father of blood and dearth.