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Quotation from Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
“Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth”
Henry VI, Part 1, Act 3, Scene 1 (Project Gutenberg #1500 (First Folio-based modern-spelling text))
The boy king rebukes Gloucester and Winchester in Parliament just before their servingmen riot outside; he names the disease of the realm but cannot cure it.
Citation: "Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth" — William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act 3, Scene 1 (Project Gutenberg #1500 (First Folio-based modern-spelling text)). (id henry-vi-part-1-q6)
