"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, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from t…"

"Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And so…"

"Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwe…"

"If they perceive dissension in our looks And that within ourselves we disagree, How will their grudging stomachs be p…"

"Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy."

"All your strength is in your union All your danger is in discord; Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers…"

"And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee."