If England to Itself Do Rest but True

At the close of William Shakespeare’s play The Life and Death of King John, Philip Faulconbridge expressed his hope that England would quickly get over John’s death and the threat of a French invasion. So long as we stick together, he said, and do not undermine our own country, we have nothing to fear from foreign powers.

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