"Major, tell my father I died with my face to the enemy."

"Went the day well? We died and never knew; But well or ill, England, we died for you."

"When you go home, tell them of us, and say ‘For your to-morrows these gave their to-day.’"

"Yet for my sons I thank ye, gods! ’tis well; Well have they perish’d, for in fight they fell. Who dies in youth and v…"

": mors et fugacem persequitur virum nec parcit inbellis iuventae poplitibus timidove tergo."

"Much work for tears in many an English mother, Whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground; Many a widow’s husban…"

"And, like a troop of jolly huntsmen, come Our lusty English, all with purpled hands, Dyed in the dying slaughter of t…"

"If the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, ch…"

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

"Τεθνάμεναι γὰρ καλὸν ἐνὶ προμάχοισι πεσόντα ἄνδρ᾿ ἀγαθὸν περὶ ᾗ πατρίδι μαρνάμενον."