The Life of Henry the Fifth

by William Shakespeare


Act 4, Scene 3

The English Camp

Enter the King

Westmoreland:

O that we had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!

King Henry V:

What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition: