Assyrian slings in Shakespeare (1)

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Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene 7:
King Henry V:
I was not angry since I came to France
Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;
Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon 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.

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Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene 7

Erik van Dongen

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