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Quotation from The St Crispin's Day Speech by William Shakespeare
“And gentlemen in England now abed 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.”
The St Crispin's Day Speech, Act 4, Scene 3 (closing lines of the speech) (First Folio 1623 (Project Gutenberg text))
The final turn back to Westmorland's idle men in England, now pictured as envying those present.
Citation: "And gentlemen in England now abed 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." — William Shakespeare, The St Crispin's Day Speech, Act 4, Scene 3 (closing lines of the speech) (First Folio 1623 (Project Gutenberg text)). (id st-crispins-day-speech-q6)
Portrait: Battle of Agincourt, St. Alban's Chronicle by Thomas Walsingham, Unknown illuminator (St Albans Chronicle), Public domain.
