Henry V

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O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

Prologue, Act 1, Scene 1

In cases of defence ‘tis best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems.

Dauphin, Act 2, Scene 3

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.

Henry V, Act 3, Scene 1

The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’

Henry V, Act 3 Scene 1

Though we Seemed dead, we did but sleep: advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

Montjoy, Act 3, Scene 6

For when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

Henry V, Act 3, Scene 6

You may as well say, that's a
valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Orleans, Act 3 Scene 7

Now entertain conjecture of a time
When creeping murmur and the poring dark
Fills the wide vessel of the universe.

Prologue, Act 4

... few die well that die in a battle...

Williams, Act 4, Scene 1

For, though I
speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I
am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me...

Henry V, Act 4, Scene 1

Upon the king! Let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives, our children, and
Our sins lay on the king!

Henry V, Act 4, Scene 1

And what have kings that privates have not too,
Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

Henry V, Act 4, Scene 1

All things are ready, if our minds be so.

Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3

This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother.

Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3

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