This day is called the feast of Crispian

William Shakespeare

1564 to 1616

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This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’
Then he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’
Old forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words—
Harry King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester—
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
This story the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d—
few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Crispin’s day.