{"id":1497739,"date":"2022-05-31T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497739"},"modified":"2022-05-31T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:00:24","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-the-dead-we-honor-shakespeares-apt-words-for-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-the-dead-we-honor-shakespeares-apt-words-for-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: The Dead We Honor: Shakespeare\u2019s Apt Words for Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-post-editorial-board-the-dead-we-honor-shakespeares-apt-words-for-memorial-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497739&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1240989051-e1653859287193.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Memorial Day inspires mixed emotions: pride in the valor of those who gave their lives in the cause of freedom; sorrow that such self-sacrifice should have been necessary. Pride in past valor may be best expressed in the St. Crispin\u2019s Day speech from \u201cHenry V\u201d (Act IV, Scene iii), delivered by the young king on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt.<\/p>\n<h2>St. Crispin\u2019s Day<\/h2>\n<p>By William Shakespeare (1564-1616)<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003If we are mark\u2019d to die, we are enow<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003To do our country loss; and if to live<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003The fewer men, the greater share of honour.<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003God\u2019s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003It yearns me not if men my garments wear;<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Such outward things dwell not in my desires:<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003But if it be a sin to covet honour,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003I am the most offending soul alive.<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003God\u2019s peace! I would not lose so great an honour<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003As one man more, methinks, would share from me<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003That he which hath no stomach to this fight,<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Let him depart; his passport shall be made<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003And crowns for convoy put into his purse:<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003We would not die in that man\u2019s company<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003That fears his fellowship to die with us.<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003This day is call\u2019d the feast of Crispian:<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003And rouse him at the name of Crispian.<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003He that shall live this day, and see old age,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003And say \u2018Tomorrow is Saint Crispian:\u2019<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Then he will strip his sleeve and show his scars,<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003And say \u2018These wounds I had on Crispin\u2019s day.\u2019<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003But he\u2019ll remember with advantages<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003What feats he did that day: then shall our names<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Familiar in his mouth as household words:<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Be in their flowing cups freshly remember\u2019d,<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003This story shall the good man teach his son;<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003And Crispin Crispian shall ne\u2019er go by,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003From this day to the ending of the world,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003But we in it shall be remembered;<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003For he to-day that sheds his blood with me<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Shall be my brother; be he ne\u2019er so vile,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003This day shall gentle his condition:<\/p>\n<p>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003And gentlemen in England now abed<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks<br \/>\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003That fought with us upon Saint Crispin\u2019s day.<\/p>\n<p>The English at Agincourt lost about 700 men; the French dead totaled at least 8,000, including seven princes of the blood and the flower of French chivalry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day inspires mixed emotions: pride in the valor of those who gave their lives in the cause of freedom; sorrow that such self-sacrifice should have been necessary. 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