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

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King.

Once more vnto the Breach,

Deare friends, once more;

Or close the Wall vp with our English dead:

In Peace, there's nothing so becomes a man,

As modest stillnesse, and humilitie:

But when the blast of Warre blowes in our eares,

Then imitate the action of the Tyger:

Stiffen the sinewes, commune vp the blood,

Disguise faire Nature with hard-fauour'd Rage:

Then lend the Eye a terrible aspect:

Let it pry through the portage of the Head,

Like the Brasse Cannon: let the Brow o'rewhelme it,

As fearefully, as doth a galled Rocke

O're-hang and iutty his confounded Base,

Swill'd with the wild and wastfull Ocean.

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