Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof! Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean. Like the brass cannon let the brow o’erwhelm it In peace there’s nothing so becomes a manīut when the blast of war blows in our ears,ĭisguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage Or close the wall up with our English dead. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more Read Shakespeare’s ‘ Once more unto the breach, dear friends’ speech from Henry V below, along with a modern English translation: Spoken by Henry, Act 3 Scene 1 Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.
The breech-loading rifle came along in the nineteenth century. One of Joan of Arc’s military skills was the ability to judge their range. the corresponding part in a musket or rifleīreech-loading cannon were used during the Hundred Years War.
the hindermost part of a piece of ordnance.ģ. (Or in some manner other than headfirst.)ġ. A breech birth for example, is one in which the child emerges rear-end first. The English word breeches meaning “trousers” derives from the plural of broc, “garment for the legs and trunk.” From this plural comes the word breech meaning “the part of the body covered by breeches.”īy extension the word came to be used in other contexts. The two words, breach and breech, both derive from a word meaning “break.” Where Shakespeare says “unto,” we now say “into.” Henry is encouraging them to make another assault on the walls of Harfleur. The men, carrying scaling ladders, are exhausted. Or close the wall up with our English dead.Īct Three begins with Henry and his troops surging onto the stage. To the reader who knows his Henry V, the second line answers the question:
I guess King Harry’s famous speech isn’t as famous as it used to be. I forget. Is it supposed to be breach, as in the gap in a broken wall, or breech, as in the part of the gun where you load the projectile, unless the gun is loaded down the muzzle, of course.
Rather, “Once more unto the breach, dear friends!” A reader experienced a moment of doubt when he came across an online essay ending with this line:
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