...fight, 1.1 Westmorland King Westmorland Henry W, Part One Forthwith a power of English shall we levy, Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb To...advantage on the bitter cross. But this our purpose now is twelve month old, And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go. Therefor we meet not now. Then let...

...tomb!" -Paraphrase of Psalm 137, in Cattermole, ed., Sacred Poetry 1:62 William Shakespeare 1564-1616 "[T]hose holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those...were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross." —Henry the Fourth, pt. 1, 1.1 "So part we sadly in this troublous world To meet with joy in sweet...

...were moulded in their mothers' To chase these pagans in those holy fields [womb Over whose acres walkt rwards France. PROLOGUE. Enter CHORUS. CHORUS. FOR a Muse of fire, that would ascend VX now is twelve month old, And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go: Therefore we meet not now. — Then...

...appears in the first scene of the first part of Henry IV, when King Henry announces his crusading purpose "[t]o chase these pagans in those holy fields, /Over...blessed feet /Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd/For our advantage on the bitter cross".58 The next most explicit of Shakespeare's references...