To Be or Not to Be by William Shakespeare

Author:William Shakespeare
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141928326
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2009-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

[IV, i, 282–98] This will not be a day for careful reckoning, hopes Harry, on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt. If his own men weigh the odds against them accurately they will run for their lives, while if God weighs his father’s crimes truly He will strike him from his throne:

O God of battles, steel my soldiers’ hearts;

Possess them not with fear; take from them now

The sense of reckoning, if th’ opposed numbers

Pluck their hearts from them. Not today, O Lord,

O, not today, think not upon the fault

My father made in compassing the crown!

I Richard’s body have interrèd new,

And on it have bestowed more contrite tears

Than from it issued forced drops of blood.

Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,

Who twice a day their withered hands hold up

Toward heaven, to pardon blood: and I have built

Two chantries where the sad and solemn priests

Sing still for Richard’s soul. More will I do,

Though all that I can do is nothing worth,

Since that my penitence comes after all,

Imploring pardon.

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