﻿{"id":17889,"date":"2015-08-04T08:13:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T07:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17889"},"modified":"2015-08-04T08:21:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T07:21:59","slug":"what-did-king-henry-v-say-to-his-troops-before-the-battle-of-agincourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17889","title":{"rendered":"What did King Henry V say to his troops before the Battle of Agincourt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\">One version is contained in the famous speech in Shakespeare&#8217;s play:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;This day is called the feast of Crispian:<br \/>\nHe that outlives this day and comes safe home,<br \/>\nWill stand a tip-toe when this day is named,<br \/>\nAnd rouse him at the name of Crispian.<br \/>\nHe that shall live this day, and see old age,<br \/>\nWill yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,<br \/>\nAnd say, &#8216;To-morrow is Saint Crispian:&#8217;<br \/>\nThen will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,<br \/>\nAnd say, &#8216;These wounds I had on Crispin&#8217;s day.&#8217;<br \/>\nOld men forget: yet all shall be forgot,<br \/>\nBut he&#8217;ll remember with advantages<br \/>\nWhat feats he did that day. Then shall our names,<br \/>\nFamiliar in his mouth as household words,<br \/>\nHarry the King, Bedford and Exeter,<br \/>\nWarwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,<br \/>\nBe in their flowing cups freshly remembered.<br \/>\nThis story shall the good man teach his son;<br \/>\nAnd Crispin Crispian shall ne&#8217;er go by,<br \/>\nFrom this day to the ending of the world,<br \/>\nBut we in it shall be remember\u00e8d;<br \/>\nWe few, we happy few, we band of brothers;<br \/>\nFor he to-day that sheds his blood with me<br \/>\nShall be my brother; be he ne&#8217;er so vile<br \/>\nThis day shall gentle his condition:<br \/>\nAnd gentlemen in England, now a-bed<br \/>\nShall think themselves accursed they were not here,<br \/>\nAnd hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks<br \/>\nThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin&#8217;s day.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another version is that really we have no idea.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One version is contained in the famous speech in Shakespeare&#8217;s play: &#8220;This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17897,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889\/revisions\/17897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}