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From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow.
— Discord
From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow.
Have always been at daggers-drawing,And one another clapper-clawing.
That each pull'd different ways with many an oath,"Arcades ambo," id est—blackguards both.
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun,More they proceed the more they still disjoin.
Alas! how light a cause may moveYet in a sunny hour fall off.
Believe me, lords, my tender years can tellThat gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
If they perceive dissension in our looksTo wilful disobedience and rebel!
Take but degree away, untune that string, In mere oppugnancy.
All your strength is in your unionAnd as brothers live together.
And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.
And bitter waxed the fray; When they met in the way.
An old affront will stir the heartThrough years of rankling pain.
Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies,Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.
