 | Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Merry G. Perry - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 372 pages
...paean to the brotherhood of warriors in his St. Crispian's Day speech: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with...ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition." In Henry's listing of the death toll of the battle, twenty-five members of this "band of brothers"... | |
 | Sara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Merry G. Perry - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 372 pages
...paean to the brotherhood of warriors in his St. Crispian's Day speech: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with...brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition.37 In Henry's listing of the death toll of the battle, twenty-five members of this "band... | |
 | John Sugden - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 984 pages
...encapsulated his attitude to the peculiar bonding that was bred in conflict: 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with...brother; be he ne'er so vile This day shall gentle his condition.'11 The men of the Blanche saw the almost familial interest he had in them when they arrived... | |
 | Murray J. Levith - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 174 pages
...101-105). Henry's famous St Crispin speech contains the following lines emphasizing his commonality: 'For he to-day that sheds his blood with me/ Shall...ne'er so vile,/ This day shall gentle his condition' (IV, iii, 61-63). Just as the bandits in Tiger Mountain, the French in Henry V are obvious villains... | |
 | George Courtauld - History - 2005 - 76 pages
...this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with...gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England, now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any... | |
 | Randy Lee Eickhoff - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 488 pages
...this day to the ending of the world. But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with...gentle his condition: "And gentlemen in England, now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any... | |
 | William A. COHEN - Business & Economics - 2005 - 266 pages
...day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember'd — We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with...gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any... | |
 | Derek Hudson Burney - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 200 pages
...occasion, Bill Dymond sent me a quotation from Shakespeare's Henry V: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers For he to-day that sheds his blood with...gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any... | |
 | Umer Khan - Computers - 2005 - 608 pages
...this day to the ending of the world. But we in it shall be remember'd; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with...gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here. And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any... | |
 | Harvey Eugene Lehman - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 505 pages
...sentiments in the following felicitous union of poetry and history: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with...ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition, (ie, shall enoble him) And gentlemen in England now abed Shall think themselves accursed they were... | |
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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... 
