Friday, January 30, 2009

Turkey

>Today is the start of my training and racing season mode of life. I will go to sleep at 9 on a >weekend, and eat the healthiest I can while training as well as I can. I won't forget to take >my vitamins or do my core work. I will concentrate on laying the hammer down when >needed and taking it really easy when I am supposed to. But most of all I will focus on >obliterating Chester in every race we do even if its for last and second to last (which I know >it won't be).

The above is a quoted text from Samuel Simmons.

Mr Samuel Simmons, I leave you with words of William Shakespeare.

(Please note that the below is an except from the Shakespeare's First Folio meticulously transcribed by the scholars at the University of Virgina who have this to say about their transcriptions: These texts are the earliest appearances in print of some of Shakespeare's plays and poems. The spelling, puncuation, and other early modern printing conventions have not been normalized)

King
What's he that wishes so?
2263: My Cousin Westmerland. No, my faire Cousin:
2264: If we are markt to dye, we are enow
2265: To doe our Countrey losse: and if to liue,
2266: The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
2267: Gods will, I pray thee wish not one man more.
2268: By Ioue, I am not couetous for Gold,
2269: Nor care I who doth feed vpon my cost:
2270: It yernes me not, if men my Garments weare;
2271: Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
2272: But if it be a sinne to couet Honor,
2273: I am the most offending Soule aliue.
2274: No 'faith, my Couze, wish not a man from England:
2275: Gods peace, I would not loose so great an Honor,
2276: As one man more me thinkes would share from me,
2277: For the best hope I haue. O, doe not wish one more:
2278: Rather proclaime it (Westmerland) through my Hoast,
2279: That he which hath no stomack to this fight,
2280: Let him depart, his Pasport shall be made,
2281: And Crownes for Conuoy put into his Purse:
2282: We would not dye in that mans companie,
2283: That feares his fellowship, to dye with vs.
2284: This day is call'd the Feast of Crispian:
2285: He that out-liues this day, and comes safe home,
2286: Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
2287: And rowse him at the Name of Crispian.
2288: He that shall see this day, and liue old age,
2289: Will yeerely on the Vigil feast his neighbours,
2290: And say, to morrow is Saint Crispian.
2291: Then will he strip his sleeue, and shew his skarres:
2292: Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot:
2293: But hee'le remember, with aduantages,
2294: What feats he did that day. Then shall our Names,
2295: Familiar in his mouth as household words,
2296: Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
2297: Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
2298: Be in their flowing Cups freshly remembred.
2299: This story shall the good man teach his sonne:
2300: And Crispine Crispian shall ne're goe by,
2301: From this day to the ending of the World,
2302: But we in it shall be remembred;
2303: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers:
2304: For he to day that sheds his blood with me,
2305: Shall be my brother: be he ne're so vile,
2306: This day shall gentle his Condition.
2307: And Gentlemen in England, now a bed,
2308: Shall thinke themselues accurst they were not here;
2309: And hold their Manhoods cheape, whiles any speakes,
2310: That fought with vs vpon Saint Crispines day.

1 comment:

Sam Simmons said...

i dont have the attention span or english reading skill to understand that. if u could simplify for me that would help