Another Perspective
Guilty in Defense
How innocent are those who knew they could count on American and British kindheartedness?
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What is it then to me if impious war
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Arrayed in flames like to the prince of fiends
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Do with his smirched complexion all fell feats
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Enlinked to waste and desolation?
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What is’t to me, when you yourselves are cause,
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If your pure maidens fall into the hand
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Of hot and forcing violation?
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What rein can hold licentious wickedness
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When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
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We may as bootless spend our vain command
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Upon th’enraged soldiers in their spoil
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As send precepts to the leviathan
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To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
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Take pity of your town and of your people
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Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command,
About the Author
James Bowman, our movie and culture critic, is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of Honor: A History and Media Madness: The Corruption of Our Political Culture, both published by Encounter Books.
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