Title: Warring Houses
Fandom: Henry VI
Rating: PG
Length: 71
Summary: In Temple Garden in London the nobles begin to choose sides
A/N: This is a copla real, ie two quintillas.  A quintilla is a five-lined stanza, each line of eight syllables, with rhyming scheme ababa, abbab, abaab or aabba.  I liked the idea that royal in English translates as real in Spanish.

The House of York had cause they said
And plucked of the rose petals white.
Their ancestors gave them the thread
And caused them to begin the fight.
No holds barred till one of them dead.

Lancaster chose the rose bush red
For they were the ones in the right,
The heir was from the true king bred.
As sides were taken knight by knight
It mattered not how many bled.