What Shakespeare Meant To Say About The Reading Match

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 We few, we happy 25,000 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 accurs''d they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That cheered with us upon Reading match day.