Shakespeare's Opening Lines - First lines of Henry V

Shakespeare's Opening Lines: The Quiz

Question #6: CORRECT!

Chorus. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire
Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,
The flat unraised spirits that have dared
On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So great an object: can this cockpit hold
The vasty fields of France?
Henry V (1.1)

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Henry V in battle. From Shakespeare's stories of the English kings. Thomas Carter. (1912)