Thursday 12 December 2019

An Honest Man







They Conquer by Corruption - 
The ONLY Thing The Powerful fear is 

An Honest Man

Because He Won't Accept Their Presents.

KING HENRY V
I tell thee truly, herald,
I know not if the day be ours or no;
For yet a many of your horsemen peer
And gallop o'er the field.

MONTJOY
The Day, is Yours.

KING HENRY V
Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
What is this castle call'd that stands hard by?

MONTJOY
They call it 'Agincourt'.

KING HENRY V
Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

FLUELLEN
Your grandfather of famous memory, 
an't please Your Majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales, 
as I have read in the chronicles,
fought a most prave pattle here in France.

KING HENRY V
They did, Fluellen.

FLUELLEN
Your Majesty says very True: 
if Your Majesties is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, 
wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps; 
which, Your Majesty know, to this
hour is an honourable badge of the service; 
and I do believe Your Majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy's day.

KING HENRY V
I wear it for a memorable honour;
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.

FLUELLEN
All the water in Wye cannot wash Your Majesty's
Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that:
God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases
His Grace, and His Majesty too!

KING HENRY V
Thanks, good my countryman.

FLUELLEN
By Jeshu, I am Your Majesty's countryman, 
I care not who know it; 
I will confess it to all the 'orld: 
need not to be ashamed of Your Majesty, 
praised be God –

So long as Your Majesty 
is an Honest Man.



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