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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
War, he sung, is toil and trouble;
Honour but an empty bubble.
Alexander's Feast (1697)
All delays are dangerous in war.
Tyrannick Love (1669)
Thus in a pageant-show a plot is made;
And peace itself is war in masquerade.
Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Such subtle Covenants shall be made,
Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense,
In peace a charge, in war a weak defense:
Stout once a month they march, a blustering band,
And ever, but in times of need, at hand.
Cymon and Iphigenia (1700)
The peaceful peasant to the wars is prest,
The fields lie fallow in inglorious rest.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)
Would I had been disposer of thy stars,
Thou shouldst have had thy wish, and died in wars.
Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)