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

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King.

O God of Battailes, steele my Souldiers hearts,

Possesse them not with feare: Take from them now

The sence of reckning of th'opposed numbers:

Pluck their hearts from them. Not to day, O Lord,

O not to day, thinke not vpon the fault

My Father made, in compassing the Crowne.

I Richards body haue interred new,

And on it haue bestowed more contrite teares,

Then from it issued forced drops of blood.

Fiue hundred poore I haue in yeerely pay,

Who twice a day their wither'd hands hold vp

Toward Heauen, to pardon, blood:

And I haue built two Chauntries,

Where the sad and solemne Priests sing still

For Richards Soule. More will I doe:

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