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

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Williams.

But if the Cause be not good, the King him-

selfe hath a heauie Reckoning to make, when all those

Legges, and Armes, and Heads, chopt off in a Battaile,

shall ioyne together at the latter day, and cry all, Wee dy-

ed at such a place, some swearing, some crying for a Sur-

gean; some vpon their Wiues, left poore behind them;

some vpon the Debts they owe, some vpon their Children

rawly left: I am afear'd, there are few dye well, that dye

in a Battaile: for how can they charitably dispose of any

thing, when Blood is their argument? Now, if these men

doe not dye well, it will be a black matter for the King,

that led them to it; who to disobey, were against all pro-

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