Mea Culpa.I read Henry V when I was 17 and my memory ain't what it was.Thank
you for the correction.
Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred.
> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 16:03:52 -0500
> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] 'ello?
> From: mercedes@okiebenz.com
> CC: fmi...@gmail.com
>
> > Fred wrote:
> >
> > Henry V, at Agincourt, his rev-up-the-troops speech.
> > Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more and fill
> > up the gaps with our english dead. etc.
>
> That is a slight mis-quote. It is "Once more __unto__ the breach..."
>
> 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;
>
>
> Henry V does say "into the breach" - but elsewhere.
>
> For you shall read that my great-grandfather
> Never went with his forces into France
> But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom
> Came pouring, like the tide into a breach,
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