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Title: Under King Henry's Banners: A story of the days of Agincourt

Author: Percy F. Westerman

Illustrator: J. F. Campbell

Release date: August 16, 2017 [eBook #55364]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK UNDER KING HENRY'S BANNERS: A STORY OF THE DAYS OF AGINCOURT ***

"HE DEALT A CRASHING BLOW AT THE RECREANT KNIGHT."

Frontispiece.

UNDER KING HENRY'S
BANNERS

A STORY OF THE DAYS OF AGINCOURT

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Author of

"The Winning of the Golden Spurs,"

etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN CAMPBELL

LONDON

THE PILGRIM PRESS

16, PILGRIM STREET, E.C.

Fair stood the wind for France

When we our sails advance,

Nor now to prove our chance

Longer will tarry;

But putting to the main

At Kaux, the mouth of Seine,

With all his martial train,

Landed King Harry.

And taking many a fort
Furnish'd in warlike sort
March'd towards Agincourt
In happy hour;
Skirmishing day by day
With those that stop'd his way,
Where the French Gen'ral lay
With all his power.

Upon Saint Crispin's day
Fought was this noble fray,
Which fame did not delay
To England to carry;
O when shall Englishmen
With such acts fill a pen,
Or England breed again
Such a King Harry?

Michael Drayton (1563-1631.)