Or Cynthia, night's queen, waits upon the day,

Shall never faith be found in fellow kings:

Dominion cannot suffer partnership.

This need no foreign proof nor far-fet[587] story:

Rome's infant walls were steep'd in brother's blood;

Nor then was land or sea, to breed such hate;

A town with one poor church set them at odds.[588]

Cæsar's and Pompey's jarring love soon ended,

'Twas peace against their wills; betwixt them both

Stepp'd Crassus in. Even as the slender isthmos,100