(The sword) succeeded, which in Civil wars

Appoints the Tent on which wing'd victory

Shall make a certain Stand; then, how the Plains

Flow'd o're with blood, and what a cloud of vulturs

And other birds of prey, hung o're both armies,

Attending when their ready Servitors,

(The Souldiers, from whom the angry gods

Had took all sense of reason, and of pity)

Would serve in their own carkasses for a feast,

How Cæsar with his Javelin force'd them on