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To: CCWoody
I love the scene in Branagh's Henry V where, after the battle of Agincourt, there is the beautiful singing of Psalm 115 ("Non nobis domine").
8 posted on 02/13/2002 7:14:39 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin
[Enter an English Herald]

KING HENRY V Now, herald, are the dead number'd?

Herald: Here is the number of the slaughter'd French.

KING HENRY V What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?

EXETER Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king; John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt: Of other lords and barons, knights and squires, Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.

KING HENRY V This note doth tell me of ten thousand French That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number, And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead One hundred twenty six: added to these, Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen, Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which, Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights: So that, in these ten thousand they have lost, There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries; The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires, And gentlemen of blood and quality. The names of those their nobles that lie dead: Charles Delabreth, high constable of France; Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France; The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures; Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dolphin, John Duke of Alencon, Anthony Duke of Brabant, The brother of the Duke of Burgundy, And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls, Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix, Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale. Here was a royal fellowship of death! Where is the number of our English dead?

[Herald shews him another paper]

Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk, Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire: None else of name; and of all other men But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here; And not to us, but to thy arm alone, Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem, But in plain shock and even play of battle, Was ever known so great and little loss On one part and on the other? Take it, God, For it is none but thine!

EXETER 'Tis wonderful!

KING HENRY V Come, go we in procession to the village. And be it death proclaimed through our host To boast of this or take the praise from God Which is his only.

FLUELLEN Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell how many is killed?

KING HENRY V Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgement, That God fought for us.

FLUELLEN Yes, my conscience, he did us great good.

KING HENRY V Do we all holy rites; Let there be sung 'Non nobis' [Psalm 115: Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake"] and 'Te Deum;' The dead with charity enclosed in clay: And then to Calais; and to England then: Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men.

[Exeunt]

http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/texts/histories/kinghenryv.html#xref026

14 posted on 02/14/2002 5:43:44 AM PST by allthingsnew
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