Hamlet and Henry V - "The readiness is all"

While there is a lot of uncertainty about the dates of a number of Shakespeare's plays, there are no such issues with regard to Henry V and Hamlet.  There is a fairly clear consensus that they were both written

in 1599 with Henry V coming first.  Some critics believe that the title characters are very different - Peter Saccio, for example, says that Henry V is the ulitmate man of action while Hamlet is the ultimate man of reflection (my words not his).  That distinction may or may not be helpful, but I have recently been wondering about some similarities in the two works that might suggest some common themes or one play impacting another.

                    Take for example 5.2 in Hamlet when Horatio offers to try to postpone the impending duel with Laertes, Hamlet responds:

"If it be, 'tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come.  The readiness is all."

All of this suggests the uncertainties of life and the importance of preparation which reminds me of two parts of Henry V.  The first is the famous scene in the night time in 4.1 when the disguised Henry encounters the three soldiers, Bates, Williams and Court.  The last two productions I have seen of this play, one in New Jersey and the other in Stratford-upon-Avon cut much of the part of this scene where the three men try to make the king responsible for the ultimate fate of soldiers like themselves.  The disguised Henry gives a long speech some of which seems like rationalization, but at the very end he says:

"Therefore should every solider in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such prearation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think that, making God so free an offer, he let him outlive that day to see his greatness and to teach others how they should prepare."

To me this sounds very much like the same idea expressed by Hamlet - the importance of being "ready," being prepared.  That this is not mere rhetoric on Henry's part is seen that once he is alone, he proceeds to "wash every mote" from his own conscience when he prays about "my father's fault encompassing the crown." 

In thinking further with regard to Henry and Hamlet it is interesting to note that while Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest part (Richard III is second - which may sound contradictory, but we know what we mean), Shakespeare wrote more lines for Henry (as prince and as king) than for any other character.  All this makes me wonder if Shakespeare saw similarities between the two figures especially their dying at an early age.  He made a conscious decision not to include Henry's death either at the end of Henry V or at the beginning of Henry VI, Part I although the terrible impact of that death is clearly portrayed in the plays that followed.  In Hamlet, of course, Shakespeare had no choice - Hamlet's death is a central part of the story, but it is interesting that just before carrying out his charge from his father and dying in the process, he talks in much the same way that Henry V urged on his soldiers and himself.