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Rallying, In Battle: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

With their own nobleness (which could have turn'd A distaff to a lance,) gilded pale looks, Part, shame, part, spirit renewed; that some, turn'd coward But by example (O, a sin in war, Damn'd in the first beginners!) 'gan to look The way that they did, and to grin like lions Upon the pikes o' the hunters. Then began A stop i' the chaser, a retire; anon, A rout, confusion thick: Forthwith they fly Chickens, the way which they stoop'd eagles; slaves The strides of victors made; and now our cowards (Like fragments in hard voyages) became The life o' the need; having found the back-door open Of the unguarded hearts, Heavens, how they wound! Some, slain before; some, dying; some, their friends O'erborne i' the former wave: ten, chas'd by one, Are now each one the slaughter-man of twenty. Cym. v.