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| <H3>SCENE I. France. Before Harfleur.</h3> | |
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| <i>Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers, with scaling-ladders</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY V</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Or close the wall up with our English dead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>In peace there's nothing so becomes a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>As modest stillness and humility:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>But when the blast of war blows in our ears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Then imitate the action of the tiger;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Let pry through the portage of the head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>As fearfully as doth a galled rock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Have in these parts from morn till even fought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Dishonour not your mothers; now attest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Be copy now to men of grosser blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Whose limbs were made in England, show us here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>The mettle of your pasture; let us swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>For there is none of you so mean and base,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>Follow your spirit, and upon this charge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt. Alarum, and chambers go off</i></p> | |
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