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Republicans fighting to stop the Clintons won’t soon forget those who did nothing or openly subverted their efforts.

In Shakespeare’s legendary play, “Henry V,” the English army is outnumbered five to one by the French army just before the Battle of Agincourt. One of the English nobles wishes that they had “but one ten thousand of those men in England/That do no work today!” Overhearing this, King Henry responds with one of the most famous speeches in the English language. First, the king says that he doesn’t want help from anyone else:

If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.

Then he goes on to explain that he’s willing to let any man leave who has no stomach for the fight:

Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.

Finally, he reminds his army that they are fighting on the feast day of St. Crispin, and that whoever survives and makes it home will remember all of the great feats done by the English on that day:

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.

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