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The Battaile of Agincourt

Note Bespeaking them with honourable words, — AGINCOVRT.

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Page 66, ll. 11, 12. “Bespeaking them with honourable words Themselues their prisoners freely and confesse.”—One of Drayton’s awkward inversions. The anonymous ecclesiastic says that some of the French nobles surrendered themselves more than ten times, and were slain after all.

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