King Henry V.<\/p>\n
Act IV. , scene III. Enter the King.<\/p>\n
West.<\/em> “O that we now had here but one\u00a0 ten thousand\u00a0 of those<\/p>\n men in England that do no work to-day!”<\/p>\n K. Hen. “<\/em>What’s he that wishes so?, my cousin Westmoreland?,<\/p>\n no, my fair cousin: If we are mark’d to die, we are enow to do<\/p>\n our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.<\/p>\n God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.<\/p>\n By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, nor care I who doth feed<\/p>\n upon my cost; it yearns me not if men my garments wear;<\/p>\n such outward things dwell not in my desires:<\/p>\n But if it be a\u00a0sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.<\/p>\n No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:<\/p>\n God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honor as one man more,<\/p>\n methinks, would share from me for the best hope I have. O,\u00a0 do not<\/p>\n wish one more! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,<\/p>\n that he which hath no stomach\u00a0to this fight, let him depart;<\/p>\n his passport shall be made and crowns for convoy put in his purse:<\/p>\n We would not die in that man’s company that fears his fellowship<\/p>\n to die with us.<\/p>\n This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day,<\/p>\n and comes safe home, will stand a tiptoe when the day is named,<\/p>\n and rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day,<\/p>\n and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors,<\/p>\n and say ‘Tomorrow is Saint\u00a0Crispian:’<\/p>\n Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.<\/p>\n And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’<\/p>\n Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, but he’ll remember<\/p>\n with advantages what feats he did that day: then shall our names,<\/p>\n familiar in his mouth as household words Harry the King,<\/p>\n Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,<\/p>\n be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.<\/p>\n This story shall the good man teach his son; and Crispin Crispian<\/p>\n shall ne’er go by, but we in it shall be remember’d;<\/p>\n We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;<\/p>\n For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother;<\/p>\n be he ne’er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition:<\/p>\n And gentlemen in England now a-bed shall think themselves<\/p>\n accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap<\/p>\n whiles any speaks that fought with us on Saint Crispin’s day.”<\/p>\n William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n King Henry’s address to his men\u00a0prior to the battle of Agincourt.<\/p>\n Islander.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" King Henry V. Act IV. , scene III. Enter the King. West. “O that we now had here but one\u00a0 ten thousand\u00a0 of those men in England that do no work to-day!” K. Hen. “What’s he that wishes so?, my cousin Westmoreland?, no, my fair cousin: If we are mark’d to die, we are enow … Continue reading “Shakespeare”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1124","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}