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

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King.

How yet resolues the Gouernour of the Towne?

This is the latest Parle we will admit:

Therefore to our best mercy giue your selues,

Or like to men prowd of destruction,

Defie vs to our worst: for as I am a Souldier,

A Name that in my thoughts becomes me best;

If I begin the batt'rie once againe,

I will not leaue the halfe-atchieued Harflew,

Till in her ashes she lye buryed.

The Gates of Mercy shall be all shut vp,

And the flesh'd Souldier, rough and hard of heart,

In libertie of bloody hand, shall raunge

With Conscience wide as Hell, mowing like Grasse

Your fresh faire Virgins, and your flowring Infants.

What is it then to me, if impious Warre,

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