Rome, if thou take delight in impious war,

First conquer all the earth, then turn thy force

Against thyself: as yet thou wants not foes.

That now the walls of houses half-reared totter,

That, rampires fallen down, huge heaps of stone

Lie in our towns, that houses are abandon'd,

And few live that behold their ancient seats;

Italy many years hath lien untill'd

And chok'd with thorns; that greedy earth wants hinds;—

Fierce Pyrrhus, neither thou nor Hannibal30