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

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Vouchsafe to those that haue not read the Story,

That I may prompt them: and of such as haue,

I humbly pray them to admit th'excuse

Of time, of numbers, and due course of things,

Which cannot in their huge and proper life,

Be here presented. Now we beare the King

Toward Callice: Graunt him there; there seene,

Heaue him away vpon your winged thoughts,

Athwart the Sea: Behold the English beach

Pales in the flood; with Men, Wiues, and Boyes,

Whose shouts & claps out-voyce the deep-mouth'd Sea,

Which like a mightie Whiffler 'fore the King,

Seemes to prepare his way: So let him land,

And solemnly see him set on to London.

So swift a pace hath Thought, that euen now

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