Reading The Life of Henry the Fift [Henry V] — William Shakespeare

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King.

Thinke we King Harry strong:

And Princes, looke you strongly arme to meet him.

The Kindred of him hath beene flesht vpon vs:

And he is bred out of that bloodie straine,

That haunted vs in our familiar Pathes:

Witnesse our too much memorable shame,

When Cressy Battell fatally was strucke,

And all our Princes captiu'd, by the hand

Of that black Name, Edward, black Prince of Wales:

Whiles that his Mountaine Sire, on Mountaine standing

Vp in the Ayre, crown'd with the Golden Sunne,

Saw his Heroicall Seed, and smil'd to see him

Mangle the Worke of Nature, and deface

The Patternes, that by God and by French Fathers

Had twentie yeeres been made. This is a Stem

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