StoryTitle("caps", "Agincourt") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair stood the wind for France", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When we our sails advance,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor now to prove our chance", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Longer will tarry;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But putting to the main,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At Caux, the mouth of Seine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With all his martial train", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Landed King Harry.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And taking many a fort,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Furnish'd in warlike sort,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Marcheth tow'rds Agincourt", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In happy hour;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Skirmishing day by day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With those that stopp'd his way,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the French gen'ral lay", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With all his power.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which, in his height of pride,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "King Henry to deride,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His ransom to provide", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Unto him sending;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which he neglects the while", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As from a nation vile,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet with an angry smile", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Their fall portending.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And turning to his men,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quoth our brave Henry then,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Though they to one be ten", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Be not amazéd:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet have we well begun;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Battles so bravely won", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Have ever to the sun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By fame been raiséd.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And for myself,\" quoth he", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"This my full rest shall be:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "England ne'er mourn for me", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor more esteem me:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Victor I will remain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or on this earth lie slain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Never shall she sustain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Loss to redeem me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Poitiers and Cressy tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When most their pride did swell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under our swords they fell:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No less our skill is", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than when our grandsire great,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Claiming the regal seat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By many a warlike feat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lopp'd the French lilies.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Duke of York so dread", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The eager vaward led;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the main Henry sped", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Among his henchmen.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Excester had the rear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A braver man not there;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O Lord, how hot they were", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the false Frenchmen!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They now to fight are gone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Armour on armour shone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Drum now to drum did groan,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To hear was wonder;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That with the cries they make", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The very earth did shake:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Trumpet to trumpet spake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thunder to thunder.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Well it thine age became,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O noble Erpingham,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which didst the signal aim", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To our hid forces!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When from a meadow by,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like a storm suddenly", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The English archery", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Stuck the French horses.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Spanish yew so strong,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Arrows a cloth-yard long", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That like to serpents stung,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Piercing the weather;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "None from his fellow starts,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But playing manly parts,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And like true English hearts", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Stuck close together.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When down their bows they threw,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And forth their bilbos drew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And on the French they flew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not one was tardy;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Arms were from shoulders sent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scalps to the teeth were rent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down the French peasants went—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our men were hardy.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This while our noble king,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His broadsword brandishing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down the French host did ding", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As to o'erwhelm it;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And many a deep wound lent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His arms with blood besprent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And many a cruel dent", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bruiséd his helmet.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gloster, that duke so good,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Next of the royal blood,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For famous England stood", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With his brave brother;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clarence, in steel so bright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though but a maiden knight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet in that furious fight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Scarce such another.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Warwick in blood did wade,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oxford the foe invade,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And cruel slaughter made", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Still as they ran up;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Suffolk his axe did ply,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beaumont and Willoughby", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bare them right doughtily,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ferrers and Fanhope.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon Saint Crispin's Day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fought was this noble fray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which fame did not delay", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To England to carry.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O when shall English men", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With such acts fill a pen?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or England breed again", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Such a King Harry?", "") ?>
Poet("Michael Drayton", "1563-1631") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>