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The Battaile of Agincourt

Note The Fleet then full — AGINCOVRT.

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Page 33, l. 17. “The Fleet then full,” etc.—Compare this fine stanza, which might have been written by one who had never been on shipboard, with the still more poetical and at the same time intensely realistic one of Shakespeare (“Henry V.,” act iii., prologue), which proves that he must have been at sea on some occasion:

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