![]() ![]() Next, Henry tells these noblemen to act as a good example for ordinary men to follow, and to teach them how to fight in a war.Īnd turning to the yeomen or farmers (i.e., those men among the ranks who are not noble: some of them were of such low status they weren’t even yeomen, who were technically farmer freeholders), Henry reminds then that their arms and legs are English and so this is their chance to prove the strength that arms of men raised in England are capable of. It’s worth remembering that Henry’s ‘dear friends’ (‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends …’) are noblemen: men of good birth. That you are worth your breeding which I doubt not ![]() ![]() Whose limbs were made in England, show us here Henry calls on the men not to dishonour their mothers by running away now: stand here and fight, he says, and by doing so prove that those warlike men who sired you actually were your fathers.Īnd teach them how to war. That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.Īnd their fathers were men who, like so many Alexander the Greats, have fought in this part of the world from morning until night, sheathing their swords only when there was no one left to fight with. Have in these parts from morn till even foughtĪnd sheathed their swords for lack of argument: ![]()
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