This day is called the Feast of Crispian

This was the first Shakespeare I ever came across, and it seized my young and impressionable mind with great fervour. And since there’s nothing I can write with the rhythm and beauty to match this, I shall let Kenneth Branagh say Shakespeare’s words for me, and in my flowing cups remember Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester – and the man who made their names immortal.

To Shakespeare!

He that outlives this day and comes safe home

Will stand a-tiptoe w...