“* My Lands shewed like a full moon about me, but now the moon’s ith last quarter, waning, waning: And I am mad to think that moon was mine; Mine and my fathers, and my forefathers—generations generations: down goes the house of us, down, down it sinks. Now is the name a beggar, begs in me! that name, which hundreds of years has made this shiere famous, in me, and my posterity, runs out. * It is a fitting epitaph for the Cawood” William shakespeare
― from “Cawood”
The quoted monologue is delivered by the Husband in the Jacobean domestic tragedy A Yorkshire Tragedy. Although published in 1608 under William Shakespeare’s name, modern scholars attribute the play to Thomas Middleton. The desperate speech reflects the character’s ruin after gambling away his family’s ancient Yorkshire estate.

“The sight does from these Bastions ply, Th’ invisible Artilery; And at proud Cawood-Castle seems To point the Battery of its Beams. As if it quarrell’d in the Seat Th’ Ambition of its Prelate great. But ore the Meads below it plays, Or innocently seems to gaze.”
― from “Cawood”

This excerpt actually comes from Andrew Marvell’s famous 17th-century country house poem, Upon Appleton House. In stanza 46, Marvell uses military metaphors like “bastions” and “invisible artillery” to describe the fortified garden design of the Nun Appleton estate, with sightlines extending toward the historic Cawood Castle