A thought for St Georges day
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A thought for St Georges day
Aye, fight and you may die.
Run, and you will live - - -
at least for a while.
And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade all the days, from this day to that,
for one chance - just one chance,
to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives,
but they can never take - - -
our Freedom!
Run, and you will live - - -
at least for a while.
And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade all the days, from this day to that,
for one chance - just one chance,
to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives,
but they can never take - - -
our Freedom!
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Maybe you haven't seen this yet. It explains everything.Ryan Taylor wrote:I don't understand any of these posts
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This just got a whole lot weirder.
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That's not how you spell awesomerRyan Taylor wrote:This just got a whole lot weirder.
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I so expected that to be a link to something else...Michael Wallace wrote:Maybe you haven't seen this yet. It explains everything.Ryan Taylor wrote:I don't understand any of these posts
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Re: A thought for St Georges day
What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day
That's more like it eh.
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day
That's more like it eh.
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if england shirts get banned in pubs so should turbans + head scarves !!
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If you don't like it then fuck off home.Ben Hunter wrote:if england shirts get banned in pubs so should turbans + head scarves !!
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Seeing people join these divvy groups drives me mad. It puts stupid thoughts in my head all day, like I don't have enough already.Matt Morrison wrote:Becky Smith became a fan of A volcanic ash cloud kept out more immigrants in one week than 8 years of Labour
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This Government has already taken our freedom - and they need so many new homes to cope with highest population density in the western world that our trees are next.
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You're forgetting Belgium and the Netherlands Martin. Oh, didn't you notice, we chopped all the trees down 1,500 years ago to build houses for all the immigrants. Those people that had been here since the ice age were well pissed off I hear.Martin Smith wrote:This Government has already taken our freedom - and they need so many new homes to cope with highest population density in the western world that our trees are next.
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Aye, those bastards in head scarves are always fighting in pubs round hereBen Hunter wrote:if england shirts get banned in pubs so should turbans + head scarves !!
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