Henry V

Question 1

Henry, Harfleur
brave, courageous

Answer 1

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

Question 2

Henry, Harfleur, battle cry

Answer 2

The game’s afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’

Question 3

Henry, King is a man like all others

Answer 3

I think the king is but a man, as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

Question 4

Henry, Subjects

Answer 4

Every subject’s duty is the king’s, but every subject’s soul is his own.

Question 5

Henry Crispin speach

Answer 5

This story shall the good man teach his son,
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother.

Question 6

Henry to Kate

Answer 6

A good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon— or rather the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly. If thou would have such a one, take me: and take me, take a soldier: take a soldier, take a king.

Question 7

Henry, To Kate, rulers, creators

Answer 7

Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a country’s fashion: we are the makers of manners, Kate.

(He says this in order to pursuade her to kiss him)

Question 8

Henry, Soldiers of England

Answer 8

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start.

Question 9

Henry, Preparation

Answer 9

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

Question 10

Henry, Happy few

Answer 10

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition

Question 11

Henry, hardship of kings

Answer 11

What infinite heartsease
Must kings neglect that private men enjoy?

Question 12

Henry, War against Dauphin

Answer 12

But I will rise there with so full a glory That I will dazzle all the eyes of France, Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.

Question 13

Henry To Montjoy

Answer 13

There’s for thy labor, Montjoy.
(Gives money)
Go bid thy master well advise himself:
If we may pass, we will; if we be hindered,
We shall your tawny ground with your red blood
Discolor. And so, Montjoy, fare you well.
The sum of all our answer is but this:
We would not seek a battle as we are,
Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it.
So tell your master.

Question 14

Henry on War with the Dauphin

Answer 14

…for many a thousand widows
Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands,
Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;
And some are yet ungotten and unborn
That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin’s scorn.

Question 15

Henry, those who don’t want to fight, Agincourt

Answer 15

That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart. His passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse.
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.

Question 16

Henry, guilt for his father’s assesion

Answer 16

“Not today, O Lord,
O, not today, think not upon the fault
My father made in compassing the crown.
I Richard’s body have interrèd new
And on it have bestowed more contrite tears
Than from it issued forcèd drops of blood.
Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay
Who twice a day their withered hands hold up
Toward heaven, to pardon blood.”