Sunday, July 15, 2018

O God of battles!

[caption id="attachment_6532" align="aligncenter" width="400"]still-of-laurence-olivier-in-the-chronicle-history-of-king-henry-the-fift-with-his-battell-fought-at-agincourt-in-france-1944-large-picture Laurence Olivier in The Chronicle History of King Henry the 5th with His Battle Fought at Agincourt in France (1944)[/caption]

"O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts;
Possess them not with fear; take from them now
The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers
Pluck their hearts from them."


William Shakespeare - Henry V (IV.i) The English camp at Agincourt

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