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"The Life of Henry the Fifth at Wikisource"
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Henry V (play)"O, do not wish one more! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that mans company, That fears his fellowship to die with us."
The Life of Henry the Fifth, often shortened to Henry V, is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written circa 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. In the First Quarto text, it was titled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, and The Life of Henry
"The Life of Henry the Fifth at Wikisource"
"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety."
"Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a charterd libertine, is still."
"You may as well say, — that’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion."
"That’s a perilous shot out of an elder-gun."
"Men of few words are the best men."