WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Henry V Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage carefully, and then answer the question that follows it: Gower: King: Here comes his Majesty. Alarum. Enter the KING, WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, EXETER, and Others, with Prisoners. Flourish. I was not angry since I came to France Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald; Ride thou into the horsemen on yond hill; If they will fight with us, bid them come down, Or void the field; they do offend our sight: If they'll do neither, we will come to them, And make them skirr away, as swift as stones Enforced from the old Assyrian slings; Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have, And not a man of them that we shall take Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so. 5 10 Enter MONTJOY. Exeter: Here comes the herald of the French, my liege. Gloucester: His eyes are humbler than they us'd to be. King: Montjoy: King: How now! What means this, herald? Know'st thou not That I have fin'd these bones of mine for ransom? Com'st thou again for ransom? No, great King: I come to thee for charitable licence, That we may wander o'er this bloody field To book our dead, and then to bury them; To sort our nobles from our common men; For many of our princes – woe the while! Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood; So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs In blood of princes; and their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore and with wild rage Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters, Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great King, To view the field in safety, and dispose Of their dead bodies! I tell thee truly, herald, I know not if the day be ours or no; For yet a many of your horsemen peer And gallop o'er the field. 15 20 25 30 35 Montjoy: The day is yours. King: Montjoy: Praised be God, and not our strength, for it! What is this castle call'd that stands hard by? They call it Agincourt. 40 King: Then call we this the field of Agincourt, Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus. Fluellen: Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France. 45 King: They did, Fluellen. [From Act 4 Scene 7] How does Shakespeare make this such a powerful moment in the play?