Battle of Hastings Speech - "Come With Me" Clause

Here she is. See the previous post for some of the patterns we wanted to follow. The scene: This time the Norwegians are still across the border, and have to decide to cross, and to "burn the boats" as it were. Look for the appeals to regret, God and victory, as well as lines similar to those found in Julius Caesar. I also put in a couple of sayings that we could have hypothetically taken from Shakespeare (like we did the rest of the English language) that we don't know the origin of with surety.

Here is the first clause, the "Come with me or go home" clause. More to come later. It takes forever to write this stuff. Shakespeare is a wizard.

To sink or swim? To cross or shrink? To Him
Whose hands of dust and self created life,
Invisible may be, yet with us still,
To Him declare retreat, in coward's prayer.
I shall not hear't; shan't the knowledge bear,
Nor glimpse of caitiff see, nor tim'rous hear;
The death before the bout, preludious knell!
To sit ashore in shame; defeat across
Innoble brow forever stamp'd. 'Tis not
my cup to drink, if thine speak now. To run
And live? Impossible, if still be life.
Return to wife or child, to craft or trade
with yearning to forget the fruitless day;
The day thou might'st have made the cross.
So be we valiant? Be we errant fools
By trusting God who formed us of this soil?
'Tis better still to die on yonder isle
Than doubting live, unknowing 'twixt the two.