With the main11 Henry sped, A braver man not there; They now to fight are gone: Well it thine age became, Struck the French horses. 14 main body of the army. 15 henchmen, lit. servants who wait 16 Exeter, uncle to the king. his truncheon in the air, calling out, in Norman French, "Now strike," after which he dismounted, as the king and others had done, and fought on foot. 18 The English were partly hidden' behind a village, and in the standing corn. O when shall Englishmen With this poem should be read Shakspearo's Henry V., and a History of England. Born at Stratford-on-Avon, he left it in early manhood for London-lived there as a player, play-writer, and part owner of the Theatreand finally returned, well-to-do, to Stratford, and there died. His amazing genius places him far above all other English poets-perhaps above all others of all time. DEATH. To be, or not to be: that is the question: i.e. To die is to sleep-nothing more.' 2 consummation, an end, a re sult. He would fain be able to say that, death being thus only a sleep, it would end all human troubles. To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, That patient merit of the unworthy takes, And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,10 |