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To view the field in safety and dispose
Of their dead bodies!

KING HENRY
I tell thee, truly, Herald,
I know not if the day be ours or no; [80]
For yet a many of your horsemen peer

And gallop o’er the field.

MONTJOY
The day is yours.

KING HENRY
Praisèd be God, and not our strength, for it!
What is this castle call’d that stands hard by?

MONTJOY
They call it Agincourt.

KING HENRY

Then call we this the field of Agincourt, [85]
Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

FLUELLEN
Your grandfather of famous memory, an’t please your majesty, and your
great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the
chronicles, [90] fought a most prave pattle here in France.

KING HENRY
They did, Fluellen.

FLUELLEN
Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is remembered of it, the
Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks
in their [95] Monmouth caps; which, your majesty know, to this hour is an
honourable badge of the service; and I do believe your majesty takes no

scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy’s day.