Flames Across the Border: 1813-1814

478 Pages·2001·5.03 MB·English

by  Pierre Berton

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how
then? Can honour set-to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a
wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word.
What is that word, honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o’
Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. ’Tis insensible, then? Yea,
to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not
suffer it. Therefore I’ll none of it: honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my
catechism.
Falstaff, in Shakespeare’s
Henry IV, Part 1, act 5, sc. I.

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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Berton, Pierre, 1920-
Flames across the border, 1813–1814
eISBN: 978-0-38567359-4.
I. Canada – History – War of 1812.* 2. United States – History – War of 1812. I. Title.
FC442.B468 2001 971.03′4 C2001-930599-0
E355.B468 2001
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