Today’s Totally Random Lines
Edward
the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,
Sir
Richard Kelly, Davy Gam, esquire;
None
else of name, and of all other men
But
five and twenty.
Henry
King Henry the Fifth
Act
IV, Scene viii, Line 104
The battle having been fought and won, Henry is here listing the English killed. Wikipedia tells me that the English dead were around six hundred, not just five and twenty. And whilst that’s a far cry from France’s six thousand, and still a great victory, it shows that Will liked to exercise his dramatic license in the retelling of the Battle of Agincourt. And why not; like they say, history is written by the victors. Actually, that was a Brit too: Winston Churchill (according to Google).
Wait, Winston who?
2 comments:
You telling me Mojo doesn't know the old WC?
It's a little embarrassing, but yeah, I don't think he did. But I explained it all, so he does now.
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