William Shakespeare on Memorial Day
1564–1616 England
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I thought upon one pair of English legs
Did march three Frenchmen.
Henry V (1599)
I knew him a good backsword man.
Now the good gods forbid
That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude
Towards her deserved children is enroll'd
In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam
Should now eat up her own!
Has this fellow no feeling of his business that he sings at grave-making?
Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.
I would my son
Were in Arabia and thy tribe before him,
His good sword in his hand.
Blow, wind! come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back.
Macbeth (1605)
I and my sword will earn our chronicle.
I said an elder soldier, not a better.
Did I say, better?
Julius Cæsar (1599)
Here is my keen-edg’d sword,
Deck’d with five flower-de-luces on each side,
The which at Touraine, in Saint Katharine’s churchyard,
Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth.