ay, and comes safe home, will stand a- tiptoe when this day is named, and rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall see this day, and live old age, will yearly on this vigil feast his neighbors and say, "Tomorrow is Saint

For these reasons, Shakespeare displayed the Archbishop of Canterbury as a man who paralleled the Elizabethan thoughts on Roman Catholicism. In the opening of the play, he tries to divert Henry's attention away from a bill that, if passed, would cause the church to "lose the better half of its possession." (Shakespeare 43) Of course the Archbishop does not want to lose any land or power, so he turns newly crowned King Henry's attention to renewing the Hundred Years War with France. "Instead of directing the king towards God, the Archbishop directed him towards France, and away from the bill." (Thompson 2-3)

With all of the inflation, deflation, and confiation in this play, Shakespeare does a good job at transforming the historical Henry V portrayed above, into a wonderful leader with much pride and respect, one with much admiration from his followers, and one that everyone loves. It is said that Henry made so much war because he simply did not know how to govern his own kingdom of England. He laid claim to the crown of France because his own crown of England was doubtful and could be challenged. In Henry's words he "claims that he will destroy a11 that he cannot enslave; he blames the consequences of his ambition on those who will not submit tamely to his tyranny." (Hazlitt 212)

O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts, possess them not with fear! Take from them now the sense of reck'ning, or th' opposed numbers pluck their hearts from them. Not today, 0 Lord, 0, not today, think not upon the fault my father made in compassing the crown! I Richard's body have interred new, and on it have bestowed more entrite tears than from it issued forced drops of blood. Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay, who twice a day their withered hands hold up toward heaven, to pardon blood; and I have built two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do: though a]1 that I can do is nothing worth; since that my penitence comes after all, imploring pardon. (Shakespeare 121)

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