See also - like a greyhound in the slips. See - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers On the other hand, the world is very seductive and at least some Christians have found themselves engulfed by various forms of popular and social media that is usually unhealthy for the spiritual life. The game's afoot:Ĭry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!' On one hand, Christians run the risk of becoming Branch Davidian Catholics terrified of the world and living in a state of paranoia. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, ![]() In peacetime there’s nothing that so becomes a man as mildness and humility. That you are worth your breeding which I doubt not įor there is none of you so mean and base, Once more, or block the wall up with our English dead. 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 Henry was encouraging his troops to have courage and attack the city again, even if they have to 'close the wall with English dead'. The breach in question is the gap in the wall of the city of Harfleur, which the English army held under siege. The most celebrated rendition of the speech comes from Laurence Olivier's performance in the 1944 film The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France, better known to the world just as Henry V. The ' Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George!' speech of Shakespeare's Henry V, Act III, 1598. The literal meaning of this phrase is let us try one more time, or try again. ![]() ‘Pulling Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps’ Origin What's the origin of the phrase 'Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more'?
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