Shakespeare is notoriously difficult to read, largely because of the sentence structure and antiquated language. King Henry V is no exception. There are words and phrases used outside the common English appearance and spelling. For example, the letter “e” is often omitted from a work so that “framed” is written throughout this play as “fram’d.” The British spellings are sometimes used as well, so that valor is spelled “valour.” In other cases, the words are contractions of a sort.