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[Enter the King of England, Exeter, Bedford, and Gloucester. Alarum. Enter Soldiers with scaling ladders at Harfleur.]
KING HENRY / Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, / Or close the wall up with our English dead! / In peace there's nothing so becomes a man / As modest stillness and humility, / But when the blast of war blows in our ears, / Then imitate the action of the tiger: / Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, / Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage, / Then lend the eye a terrible aspect, / Let it pry through the portage of the head / Like the brass cannon, let the brow o'erwhelm it / As fearfully as doth a galled rock / O'erhang and jutty his confounded base / Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.