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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,<br />

And rouse him at the name <strong>of</strong> Crispian.<br />

He that shall live this day, and see old age,<br />

Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,<br />

And say, ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’<br />

<strong>The</strong>n will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,<br />

And say, ‘<strong>The</strong>se wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’<br />

Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,<br />

But he’ll remember with advantages<br />

What feats he did that day. <strong>The</strong>n shall our names,<br />

Familiar in his mouth as household words,<br />

Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,<br />

Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,<br />

Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.<br />

This story shall the good man teach his son;<br />

And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,<br />

From this day to the ending <strong>of</strong> the world,<br />

But we in it shall be rememberéd;<br />

We few, we happy few, we band <strong>of</strong> brothers;<br />

For he to-day that sheds his blood with me<br />

Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile<br />

This day shall gentle his condition:<br />

And gentlemen in England, now a-bed<br />

Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,<br />

And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks<br />

That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.<br />

‘Henry V’ (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35<br />

Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat.<br />

‘Henry V’ (1599) act 4, sc. 4, l. [20]<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is a river in Macedon, and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called Wye<br />

at Monmouth; but it is out <strong>of</strong> my prains what is the name <strong>of</strong> the other river; but ’tis all one, ’tis<br />

alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.<br />

‘Henry V’ (1599) act 4, sc. 7, l. [28]<br />

But now behold,<br />

In the quick forge and working-house <strong>of</strong> thought,<br />

How London doth pour out her citizens.<br />

‘Henry V’ (1599) act 5, chorus, l. 22<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.<br />

‘Henry V’ (1599) act 5, sc. 1, l. [3]<br />

Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.

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