Today is the anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth and death. I got to visit Straford-Upon-Avon five years ago and we toured the house where Shakespeare was born. I'm really not a fan of Shakespeare's Sonnets but there are some speeches in his play I just love. One being the St. Crispin's Day Speech from Henry V. I first heard this speech in the movie Renaissance Man and then went on to read the play and it might just be one of my favorite histories. St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V (1599) by William Shakespeare WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! KING. What’s he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark’d to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth fe...
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