Don’t dishonour your mothers: prove now that those you call your fathers did indeed beget you. On, on, you most noble English, sprung from fathers proved in war fathers who, like so many Alexanders, have fought from dawn till dusk in these parts and sheathed their swords only when there was no-one left to oppose. Now grit your teeth and flare your nostrils take a deep breath and strain every sinew to its limit. Let your brows stick out over them with all the fearfulness of a sea-tormented cliff that overhangs its crumbling base, eroded by the wild destructive ocean. Next, give your eyes a terrifying look – let them protrude from the portholes of the head like brass cannons. But when the noise of war resounds in our ears then be like tigers: stiffen the muscles, stir the blood, disguise your good side with a display of grim-faced rage. In peacetime there’s nothing that so becomes a man as mildness and humility. Once more, or block the wall up with our English dead. The game’s afoot:Ĭry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’ Modern Translation of ‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends’ I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, That you are worth your breeding which I doubt not įor there is none of you so mean and base, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.Īnd teach them how to war. Have in these parts from morn till even foughtĪnd sheathed their swords for lack of argument: Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof! Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean. Like the brass cannon let the brow o’erwhelm it In peace there’s nothing so becomes a manīut when the blast of war blows in our ears,ĭisguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage Or close the wall up with our English dead. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more Read Shakespeare’s ‘ Once more unto the breach, dear friends’ speech from Henry V below, along with a modern English translation: Spoken by Henry, Act 3 Scene 1 Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.
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