Word: agincourt
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...gave the world the guillotine But still we don't know why the heck, You have to drop it on our neck. We're glad of what we did to you, At Agincourt and Waterloo. And now the Franco-Prussian War Is something we arc strongly for. So damn your food and damn your wines, Your twisted loaves and twisting vines. Your table d'hote, your a la carte, Your land, your history, your art. From now on you can keep the lot. Take every single thing you've got, Your land, your wealth, your...
...flows like an invading army. London's raw new office buildings jostle Georgian mansions; a Hilton hotel stares impertinently down onto Buckingham Palace. Bowling alleys and dance halls are packed each night of the week. On city rooftops, TV antennas stand as thick as the English archers at Agincourt...
...Paul Hardwick, who is plain enough. Musical interludes are provided by Mr. James Walker, a harpsichordist,--Mr. Barton, luckily, seems to have been unable to devise a way of making the harpsichord funny--and by three gentlemen of indeterminate voice who give the worst performance of the "Agincourt Song" in more than 500 years...
...Henry V wins Battle of Agincourt, is later acknowledged heir to French throne...
...human ambitions and failings and faiths. About equally between them, at the center of the play, stands a youthful Prince Hal, who must grow from being a thoughtless playboy and Falstaff's roistering playfellow into Hotspur's slayer and the eventual victor of Agincourt. With its carousing prince and its treacherous king and its traitorous rebels, with its grand-mannered plotting and grand-languaged speeches, Henry IV has considerable vitality without Falstaff...