Category Archive 'St. David’s Day'

01 Mar 2025

Welsh Tradition

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The Royal Welsh wear a leek on March 1st.


HENRY V, Act 4, Scene 7:

MONTJOY
The day is yours.

KING HENRY V
Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!
What is this castle call’d that stands hard by?

MONTJOY
They call it Agincourt.

KING HENRY V
Then call we this the field of Agincourt,
Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.

FLUELLEN
Your grandfather of famous memory, an’t please your
majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack
Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles,
fought a most prave pattle here in France.

KING HENRY V
They did, Fluellen.

FLUELLEN
Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is
remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a
garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their
Monmouth caps; which, your majesty know, to this
hour is an honourable badge of the service; and I do
believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek
upon Saint Tavy’s day.

KING HENRY V
I wear it for a memorable honour;
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.

FLUELLEN
All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty’s
Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that:
God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases
his grace, and his majesty too!

KING HENRY V
Thanks, good my countryman.

01 Mar 2013

St. David’s Day

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Put a leek on your hat and a daffodil in your lapel, it’s St. David’s Day.

And we can’t celebrate St. David’s Day without some Welsh singing.

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