St Crispin's Day Speech Copywork
King Henry rallies his outnumbered army on the morning of Agincourt.
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Shakespeare's most stirring call to courage, set as handwriting copywork. Students trace and copy King Henry's speech to his weary soldiers before Agincourt, meeting rich vocabulary and the famous "band of brothers" lines along the way. A natural pairing for medieval history, rhetoric, and public-speaking units. 14 pages, 1/4-inch letters in manuscript print on dashed manuscript lines. Sheets included: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only. Henry V, Act IV Scene 3. Public domain text.
ON THIS SHEET: This day is call'd the feast of Crispian: · He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, · Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, · 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 Crispin'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 remember'd. · 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 remember'd; · 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 accursed they were not here, · And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks · That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. — Henry V, Act IV Scene 3. LETTER SIZE: 1/4-inch. HANDWRITING: manuscript print. SHEETS: Copywork (Step 1), First Letter Hints (Step 2), Memory Lines (Step 3), Source Text, First Letters Only.
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