In political terms Māori also organised for war in hapu, groups subordinate to chiefs, fighting as units.

And in her cheekes the vermeill red did shew / Like roses in a bed of lillies shed[…].

[T]hey conſult on this important buſineſs, how they may dethronize Baretana, and inthronize Albemare in the chair and choice of Clara’s affection: […]

Without their coſt, you terminate the cauſe; / And ſave th' expence of long litigious laws: / Where ſuits are travers'd; and ſo little won, / That he who conquers, is but laſt undone: […]