Henry V Once More Unto the Breach

Question 1

Beginning

Answer 1

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!

Question 2

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!

Answer 2

In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility,

Question 3

In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility,

Answer 3

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:

Question 4

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:

Answer 4

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage,

Question 5

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage,

Answer 5

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Let it pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon,

Question 6

Then lend the eye a terrible aspect,
Let it pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon,

Answer 6

let the brow o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a gallèd rock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base
Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.

Question 7

As fearfully as doth a gallèd rock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base
Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.

Answer 7

Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit
To his full height.

Question 8

Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit
To his full height.

Answer 8

On, on, you noblest English
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof

Question 9

On, on, you noblest English
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof

Answer 9

Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought,
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.

Question 10

Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought,
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.

Answer 10

Dishonor not your mothers. Now attest
That those whom you called fathers did beget you.

Question 11

Dishonor not your mothers. Now attest
That those whom you called fathers did beget you.

Answer 11

Be copy now to men of grosser blood
And teach them how to war.

Question 12

Be copy now to men of grosser blood
And teach them how to war.

Answer 12

And you, good
yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture.

Question 13

And you, good
yeomen,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture.

Answer 13

Let us swear
That you are worth your breeding, which I doubt
not,
For there is none of you so mean and base
That hath not noble luster in your eyes.

Question 14

Let us swear
That you are worth your breeding, which I doubt
not,
For there is none of you so mean and base
That hath not noble luster in your eyes.

Answer 14

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot.

Question 15

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot.

Answer 15

Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry “God for Harry, England, and Saint George!”