Reading The first part of King Henry the Sixt — William Shakespeare

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Shame to the Duke of Burgundy, and thee:

I vow'd (base Knight) when I did meete the next,

To teare the Garter from thy Crauens legge,

Which I haue done, because (vnworthily)

Thou was't installed in that High Degree.

Pardon me Princely Henry, and the rest:

This Dastard, at the battell of Poictiers,

When (but in all) I was sixe thousand strong,

And that the French were almost ten to one,

Before we met, or that a stroke was giuen,

Like to a trustie Squire, did run away.

In which assault, we lost twelue hundred men.

My selfe, and diuers Gentlemen beside,

Were thete surpriz'd, and taken prisoners.

Then iudge (great Lords) if I haue done amisse:

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