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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Westminster Abbey.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Dead March. Enter the Funeral of KING HENRY the Fifth, attended on by Dukes of BEDFORD, Regent of France; GLOUCESTER, Protector; and EXETER, Earl of WARWICK, the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, Heralds, & c</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Comets, importing change of times and states,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>And with them scourge the bad revolting stars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>That have consented unto Henry's death!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>England ne'er had a king until his time.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>Virtue he had, deserving to command:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>His brandish'd sword did blind men with his beams:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>His sparking eyes, replete with wrathful fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>More dazzled and drove back his enemies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>Than mid-day sun fierce bent against their faces.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>What should I say? his deeds exceed all speech:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>We mourn in black: why mourn we not in blood?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>Henry is dead and never shall revive:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>Upon a wooden coffin we attend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>And death's dishonourable victory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>We with our stately presence glorify,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>Like captives bound to a triumphant car.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>What! shall we curse the planets of mishap</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>Or shall we think the subtle-witted French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>Conjurers and sorcerers, that afraid of him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>By magic verses have contrived his end?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>He was a king bless'd of the King of kings.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>Unto the French the dreadful judgement-day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>So dreadful will not be as was his sight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>The battles of the Lord of hosts he fought:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>The church's prayers made him so prosperous.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>The church! where is it? Had not churchmen pray'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>His thread of life had not so soon decay'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>None do you like but an effeminate prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>Whom, like a school-boy, you may over-awe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>Gloucester, whate'er we like, thou art protector</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>And lookest to command the prince and realm.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>Thy wife is proud; she holdeth thee in awe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>More than God or religious churchmen may.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>Name not religion, for thou lovest the flesh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>Except it be to pray against thy foes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>Cease, cease these jars and rest your minds in peace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>Let's to the altar: heralds, wait on us:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>Since arms avail not now that Henry's dead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>Posterity, await for wretched years,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>When at their mothers' moist eyes babes shall suck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>And none but women left to wail the dead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Combat with adverse planets in the heavens!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>A far more glorious star thy soul will make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>Than Julius Caesar or bright--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>My honourable lords, health to you all!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>Of loss, of slaughter and discomfiture:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>Guienne, Champagne, Rheims, Orleans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>Paris, Guysors, Poictiers, are all quite lost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>What say'st thou, man, before dead Henry's corse?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>Will make him burst his lead and rise from death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>If Henry were recall'd to life again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>These news would cause him once more yield the ghost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>How were they lost? what treachery was used?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>No treachery; but want of men and money.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>Amongst the soldiers this is muttered,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>That here you maintain several factions,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>And whilst a field should be dispatch'd and fought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>You are disputing of your generals:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>One would have lingering wars with little cost;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>A third thinks, without expense at all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>By guileful fair words peace may be obtain'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Awake, awake, English nobility!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>Cropp'd are the flower-de-luces in your arms;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>Of England's coat one half is cut away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>Were our tears wanting to this funeral,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>These tidings would call forth their flowing tides.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>Me they concern; Regent I am of France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>Give me my steeled coat. I'll fight for France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>Away with these disgraceful wailing robes!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>Wounds will I lend the French instead of eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>To weep their intermissive miseries.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter to them another Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>France is revolted from the English quite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>Except some petty towns of no import:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>The Dauphin Charles is crowned king of Rheims;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>The Bastard of Orleans with him is join'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>Reignier, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>The Duke of Alencon flieth to his side.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>The Dauphin crowned king! all fly to him!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>O, whither shall we fly from this reproach?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>Gloucester, why doubt'st thou of my forwardness?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>An army have I muster'd in my thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>Wherewith already France is overrun.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter another Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>My gracious lords, to add to your laments,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>I must inform you of a dismal fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>What! wherein Talbot overcame? is't so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>O, no; wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>The circumstance I'll tell you more at large.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>The tenth of August last this dreadful lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>Retiring from the siege of Orleans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>Having full scarce six thousand in his troop.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>By three and twenty thousand of the French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>Was round encompassed and set upon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>No leisure had he to enrank his men;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>He wanted pikes to set before his archers;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck'd out of hedges</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>They pitched in the ground confusedly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>More than three hours the fight continued;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>Where valiant Talbot above human thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>Enacted wonders with his sword and lance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>Here, there, and every where, enraged he flew:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>The French exclaim'd, the devil was in arms;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>All the whole army stood agazed on him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>A Talbot! a Talbot! cried out amain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>And rush'd into the bowels of the battle.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>Here had the conquest fully been seal'd up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>If Sir John Fastolfe had not play'd the coward:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>He, being in the vaward, placed behind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>With purpose to relieve and follow them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>Hence grew the general wreck and massacre;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>Enclosed were they with their enemies:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>Whom all France with their chief assembled strength</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>Durst not presume to look once in the face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>Is Talbot slain? then I will slay myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>For living idly here in pomp and ease,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>Unto his dastard foemen is betray'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>O no, he lives; but is took prisoner,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>And Lord Scales with him and Lord Hungerford:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>Most of the rest slaughter'd or took likewise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>His ransom there is none but I shall pay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>His crown shall be the ransom of my friend;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>Farewell, my masters; to my task will I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>To keep our great Saint George's feast withal:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>So you had need; for Orleans is besieged;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>The English army is grown weak and faint:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>And hardly keeps his men from mutiny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>Since they, so few, watch such a multitude.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>Either to quell the Dauphin utterly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>Or bring him in obedience to your yoke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>I do remember it; and here take my leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>To go about my preparation.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>To view the artillery and munition;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>And then I will proclaim young Henry king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>To Eltham will I, where the young king is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>Being ordain'd his special governor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>And for his safety there I'll best devise.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>Each hath his place and function to attend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>I am left out; for me nothing remains.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>But long I will not be Jack out of office:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>The king from Eltham I intend to steal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>And sit at chiefest stern of public weal.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. France. Before Orleans.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Sound a flourish. Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, and REIGNIER, marching with drum and Soldiers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>So in the earth, to this day is not known:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>Late did he shine upon the English side;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>Now we are victors; upon us he smiles.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>What towns of any moment but we have?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>At pleasure here we lie near Orleans;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>Either they must be dieted like mules</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>And have their provender tied to their mouths</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>Let's raise the siege: why live we idly here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>Remaineth none but mad-brain'd Salisbury;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>And he may well in fretting spend his gall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>Nor men nor money hath he to make war.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>Sound, sound alarum! we will rush on them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>Now for the honour of the forlorn French!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>Him I forgive my death that killeth me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>When he sees me go back one foot or fly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Here alarum; they are beaten back by the English with great loss. Re-enter CHARLES, ALENCON, and REIGNIER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>Who ever saw the like? what men have I!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>Dogs! cowards! dastards! I would ne'er have fled,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>But that they left me 'midst my enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>Salisbury is a desperate homicide;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>He fighteth as one weary of his life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>The other lords, like lions wanting food,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>Do rush upon us as their hungry prey.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>Froissart, a countryman of ours, records,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>England all Olivers and Rowlands bred,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>During the time Edward the Third did reign.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>More truly now may this be verified;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>For none but Samsons and Goliases</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>Lean, raw-boned rascals! who would e'er suppose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>They had such courage and audacity?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>Let's leave this town; for they are hare-brain'd slaves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>And hunger will enforce them to be more eager:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>Of old I know them; rather with their teeth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>The walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>I think, by some odd gimmors or device</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>Their arms are set like clocks, stiff to strike on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>By my consent, we'll even let them alone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>Be it so.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the BASTARD OF ORLEANS</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>Where's the Prince Dauphin? I have news for him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>Bastard of Orleans, thrice welcome to us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>Methinks your looks are sad, your cheer appall'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>Be not dismay'd, for succor is at hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>A holy maid hither with me I bring,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>Which by a vision sent to her from heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>Ordained is to raise this tedious siege</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>And drive the English forth the bounds of France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>The spirit of deep prophecy she hath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>What's past and what's to come she can descry.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>Speak, shall I call her in? Believe my words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>For they are certain and unfallible.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>Go, call her in.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BASTARD OF ORLEANS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>But first, to try her skill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>Reignier, stand thou as Dauphin in my place:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>Question her proudly; let thy looks be stern:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>By this means shall we sound what skill she hath.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, with JOAN LA PUCELLE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>Fair maid, is't thou wilt do these wondrous feats?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>Reignier, is't thou that thinkest to beguile me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>Where is the Dauphin? Come, come from behind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>I know thee well, though never seen before.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>Be not amazed, there's nothing hid from me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>In private will I talk with thee apart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>Stand back, you lords, and give us leave awhile.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>She takes upon her bravely at first dash.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd's daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>My wit untrain'd in any kind of art.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.75>Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.76>To shine on my contemptible estate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.77>Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.78>And to sun's parching heat display'd my cheeks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.79>God's mother deigned to appear to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.80>And in a vision full of majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.81>Will'd me to leave my base vocation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.82>And free my country from calamity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.83>Her aid she promised and assured success:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.84>In complete glory she reveal'd herself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.85>And, whereas I was black and swart before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.86>With those clear rays which she infused on me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.87>That beauty am I bless'd with which you see.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.88>Ask me what question thou canst possible,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.89>And I will answer unpremeditated:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.90>My courage try by combat, if thou darest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.91>And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.92>Resolve on this, thou shalt be fortunate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.93>If thou receive me for thy warlike mate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.94>Thou hast astonish'd me with thy high terms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.95>Only this proof I'll of thy valour make,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.96>In single combat thou shalt buckle with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.97>And if thou vanquishest, thy words are true;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.98>Otherwise I renounce all confidence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.99>I am prepared: here is my keen-edged sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.100>Deck'd with five flower-de-luces on each side;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.101>The which at Touraine, in Saint Katharine's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.102>churchyard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.103>Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.104>Then come, o' God's name; I fear no woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.105>And while I live, I'll ne'er fly from a man.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here they fight, and JOAN LA PUCELLE overcomes</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.106>Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.107>And fightest with the sword of Deborah.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.108>Christ's mother helps me, else I were too weak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.109>Whoe'er helps thee, 'tis thou that must help me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.110>Impatiently I burn with thy desire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.111>My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.112>Excellent Pucelle, if thy name be so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.113>Let me thy servant and not sovereign be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.114>'Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.115>I must not yield to any rites of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.116>For my profession's sacred from above:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.117>When I have chased all thy foes from hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.118>Then will I think upon a recompense.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.119>Meantime look gracious on thy prostrate thrall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.120>My lord, methinks, is very long in talk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.121>Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.122>Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.123>Shall we disturb him, since he keeps no mean?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.124>He may mean more than we poor men do know:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.125>These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.126>My lord, where are you? what devise you on?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.127>Shall we give over Orleans, or no?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.128>Why, no, I say, distrustful recreants!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.129>Fight till the last gasp; I will be your guard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.130>What she says I'll confirm: we'll fight it out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.131>Assign'd am I to be the English scourge.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.132>This night the siege assuredly I'll raise:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.133>Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.134>Since I have entered into these wars.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.135>Glory is like a circle in the water,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.136>Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.137>Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.138>With Henry's death the English circle ends;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.139>Dispersed are the glories it included.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.140>Now am I like that proud insulting ship</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.141>Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.142>Was Mahomet inspired with a dove?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.143>Thou with an eagle art inspired then.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.144>Helen, the mother of great Constantine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.145>Nor yet Saint Philip's daughters, were like thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.146>Bright star of Venus, fall'n down on the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.147>How may I reverently worship thee enough?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.148>Leave off delays, and let us raise the siege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.149>Woman, do what thou canst to save our honours;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.150>Drive them from Orleans and be immortalized.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.151>Presently we'll try: come, let's away about it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.152>No prophet will I trust, if she prove false.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. London. Before the Tower.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter GLOUCESTER, with his Serving-men in blue coats</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>I am come to survey the Tower this day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>Since Henry's death, I fear, there is conveyance.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>Where be these warders, that they wait not here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>Open the gates; 'tis Gloucester that calls.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Warder</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>[Within] Who's there that knocks so imperiously?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>First Serving-Man It is the noble Duke of Gloucester.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Second Warder</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>[Within] Whoe'er he be, you may not be let in.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>First Serving-Man Villains, answer you so the lord protector?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Warder</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>[Within] The Lord protect him! so we answer him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>We do no otherwise than we are will'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>Who willed you? or whose will stands but mine?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>There's none protector of the realm but I.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>Break up the gates, I'll be your warrantize.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Gloucester's men rush at the Tower Gates, and WOODVILE the Lieutenant speaks within</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>WOODVILE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>What noise is this? what traitors have we here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>Lieutenant, is it you whose voice I hear?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>Open the gates; here's Gloucester that would enter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>WOODVILE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>Have patience, noble duke; I may not open;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19>The Cardinal of Winchester forbids:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>From him I have express commandment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>That thou nor none of thine shall be let in.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>Faint-hearted Woodvile, prizest him 'fore me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>Thou art no friend to God or to the king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>Open the gates, or I'll shut thee out shortly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>Serving-Men Open the gates unto the lord protector,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter to the Protector at the Tower Gates BISHOP OF WINCHESTER and his men in tawny coats</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>How now, ambitious Humphry! what means this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>Peel'd priest, dost thou command me to be shut out?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>I do, thou most usurping proditor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>And not protector, of the king or realm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>Stand back, thou manifest conspirator,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>Thou that contrivedst to murder our dead lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>Thou that givest whores indulgences to sin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>I'll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal's hat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>If thou proceed in this thy insolence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41>Nay, stand thou back, I will not budge a foot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>I will not slay thee, but I'll drive thee back:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>Thy scarlet robes as a child's bearing-cloth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>I'll use to carry thee out of this place.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>Do what thou darest; I beard thee to thy face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>What! am I dared and bearded to my face?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>Draw, men, for all this privileged place;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>Blue coats to tawny coats. Priest, beware your beard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal's hat:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>In spite of pope or dignities of church,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>Gloucester, thou wilt answer this before the pope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>Winchester goose, I cry, a rope! a rope!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>Now beat them hence; why do you let them stay?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in sheep's array.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>Out, tawny coats! out, scarlet hypocrite!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here GLOUCESTER's men beat out BISHOP OF WINCHESTER's men, and enter in the hurly- burly the Mayor of London and his Officers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>Fie, lords! that you, being supreme magistrates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>Thus contumeliously should break the peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>Peace, mayor! thou know'st little of my wrongs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65>Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>Hath here distrain'd the Tower to his use.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.67>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.68>Here's Gloucester, a foe to citizens,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.69>One that still motions war and never peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.70>O'ercharging your free purses with large fines,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.71>That seeks to overthrow religion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.72>Because he is protector of the realm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.73>And would have armour here out of the Tower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.74>To crown himself king and suppress the prince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.75>I will not answer thee with words, but blows.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here they skirmish again</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.76>Naught rests for me in this tumultuous strife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.77>But to make open proclamation:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.78>Come, officer; as loud as e'er thou canst,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.79>Cry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.80>All manner of men assembled here in arms this day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.81>against God's peace and the king's, we charge and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.82>command you, in his highness' name, to repair to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.83>your several dwelling-places; and not to wear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.84>handle, or use any sword, weapon, or dagger,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.85>henceforward, upon pain of death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.86>Cardinal, I'll be no breaker of the law:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.87>But we shall meet, and break our minds at large.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.88>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.89>Gloucester, we will meet; to thy cost, be sure:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.90>Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.91>I'll call for clubs, if you will not away.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.92>This cardinal's more haughty than the devil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.93>Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.94>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.95>Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.96>For I intend to have it ere long.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt, severally, GLOUCESTER and BISHOP OF WINCHESTER with their Serving-men</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.97>See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.98>Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.99>I myself fight not once in forty year.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Orleans.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, on the walls, a Master Gunner and his Boy</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.1>Master-Gunner Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is besieged,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.2>And how the English have the suburbs won.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.3>Father, I know; and oft have shot at them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.4>Howe'er unfortunate I miss'd my aim.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.5>Master-Gunner But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.6>Chief master-gunner am I of this town;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.7>Something I must do to procure me grace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.8>The prince's espials have informed me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.9>How the English, in the suburbs close intrench'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.10>Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.11>In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.12>And thence discover how with most advantage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.13>They may vex us with shot, or with assault.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.14>To intercept this inconvenience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.15>A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.16>And even these three days have I watch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.17>If I could see them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.18>Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.19>If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.20>And thou shalt find me at the governor's.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.21>Father, I warrant you; take you no care;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.22>I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter, on the turrets, SALISBURY and TALBOT, GLANSDALE, GARGRAVE, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.23>Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.24>How wert thou handled being prisoner?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.25>Or by what means got'st thou to be released?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.26>Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.27>The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.28>Call'd the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.29>For him was I exchanged and ransomed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.30>But with a baser man of arms by far</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.31>Once in contempt they would have barter'd me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.32>Which I, disdaining, scorn'd; and craved death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.33>Rather than I would be so vile esteem'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.34>In fine, redeem'd I was as I desired.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.35>But, O! the treacherous Fastolfe wounds my heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.36>Whom with my bare fists I would execute,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.37>If I now had him brought into my power.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.38>Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertain'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.39>With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.40>In open market-place produced they me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.41>To be a public spectacle to all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.42>Here, said they, is the terror of the French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.43>The scarecrow that affrights our children so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.44>Then broke I from the officers that led me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.45>And with my nails digg'd stones out of the ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.46>To hurl at the beholders of my shame:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.47>My grisly countenance made others fly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.48>None durst come near for fear of sudden death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.49>In iron walls they deem'd me not secure;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.50>So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.51>That they supposed I could rend bars of steel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.52>And spurn in pieces posts of adamant:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.53>Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.54>That walked about me every minute-while;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.55>And if I did but stir out of my bed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.56>Ready they were to shoot me to the heart.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Boy with a linstock</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.57>I grieve to hear what torments you endured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.58>But we will be revenged sufficiently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.59>Now it is supper-time in Orleans:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.60>Here, through this grate, I count each one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.61>and view the Frenchmen how they fortify:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.62>Let us look in; the sight will much delight thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.63>Sir Thomas Gargrave, and Sir William Glansdale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.64>Let me have your express opinions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.65>Where is best place to make our battery next.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>GARGRAVE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.66>I think, at the north gate; for there stand lords.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>GLANSDALE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.67>And I, here, at the bulwark of the bridge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.68>For aught I see, this city must be famish'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.69>Or with light skirmishes enfeebled.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here they shoot. SALISBURY and GARGRAVE fall</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.70>O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched sinners!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>GARGRAVE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.71>O Lord, have mercy on me, woful man!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.72>What chance is this that suddenly hath cross'd us?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.73>Speak, Salisbury; at least, if thou canst speak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.74>How farest thou, mirror of all martial men?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.75>One of thy eyes and thy cheek's side struck off!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.76>Accursed tower! accursed fatal hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.77>That hath contrived this woful tragedy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.78>In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.79>Henry the Fifth he first train'd to the wars;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.80>Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.81>His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.82>Yet livest thou, Salisbury? though thy speech doth fail,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.83>One eye thou hast, to look to heaven for grace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.84>The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.85>Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.86>If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.87>Bear hence his body; I will help to bury it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.88>Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.89>Speak unto Talbot; nay, look up to him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.90>Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.91>Thou shalt not die whiles--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.92>He beckons with his hand and smiles on me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.93>As who should say 'When I am dead and gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.94>Remember to avenge me on the French.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.95>Plantagenet, I will; and like thee, Nero,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.96>Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.97>Wretched shall France be only in my name.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here an alarum, and it thunders and lightens</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.98>What stir is this? what tumult's in the heavens?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.99>Whence cometh this alarum and the noise?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.100>My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.101>The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle join'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.102>A holy prophetess new risen up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.103>Is come with a great power to raise the siege.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here SALISBURY lifteth himself up and groans</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.104>Hear, hear how dying Salisbury doth groan!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.105>It irks his heart he cannot be revenged.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.106>Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.107>Pucelle or puzzel, dolphin or dogfish,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.108>Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.109>And make a quagmire of your mingled brains.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.110>Convey me Salisbury into his tent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.111>And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Here an alarum again: and TALBOT pursueth the DAUPHIN, and driveth him: then enter JOAN LA PUCELLE, driving Englishmen before her, and exit after them then re-enter TALBOT</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.1>Where is my strength, my valour, and my force?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.2>Our English troops retire, I cannot stay them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.3>A woman clad in armour chaseth them.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter JOAN LA PUCELLE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.4>Here, here she comes. I'll have a bout with thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.5>Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.6>Blood will I draw on thee, thou art a witch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.7>And straightway give thy soul to him thou servest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.8>Come, come, 'tis only I that must disgrace thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here they fight</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.9>Heavens, can you suffer hell so to prevail?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.10>My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.11>And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.12>But I will chastise this high-minded strumpet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They fight again</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.13>Talbot, farewell; thy hour is not yet come:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.14>I must go victual Orleans forthwith.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A short alarum; then enter the town with soldiers</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.15>O'ertake me, if thou canst; I scorn thy strength.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.16>Go, go, cheer up thy hungry-starved men;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.17>Help Salisbury to make his testament:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.18>This day is ours, as many more shall be.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.19>My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.20>I know not where I am, nor what I do;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.21>A witch, by fear, not force, like Hannibal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.22>Drives back our troops and conquers as she lists:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.23>So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.24>Are from their hives and houses driven away.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.25>They call'd us for our fierceness English dogs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.26>Now, like to whelps, we crying run away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A short alarum</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.27>Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.28>Or tear the lions out of England's coat;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.29>Renounce your soil, give sheep in lions' stead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.30>Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.31>Or horse or oxen from the leopard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.32>As you fly from your oft-subdued slaves.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum. Here another skirmish</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.33>It will not be: retire into your trenches:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.34>You all consented unto Salisbury's death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.35>For none would strike a stroke in his revenge.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.36>Pucelle is enter'd into Orleans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.37>In spite of us or aught that we could do.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.38>O, would I were to die with Salisbury!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.39>The shame hereof will make me hide my head.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit TALBOT. Alarum; retreat; flourish</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter, on the walls, JOAN LA PUCELLE, CHARLES, REIGNIER, ALENCON, and Soldiers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.1>Advance our waving colours on the walls;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.2>Rescued is Orleans from the English</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.3>Thus Joan la Pucelle hath perform'd her word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.4>Divinest creature, Astraea's daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.5>How shall I honour thee for this success?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.6>Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.7>That one day bloom'd and fruitful were the next.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.8>France, triumph in thy glorious prophetess!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.9>Recover'd is the town of Orleans:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.10>More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.11>Why ring not out the bells aloud throughout the town?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.12>Dauphin, command the citizens make bonfires</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.13>And feast and banquet in the open streets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.14>To celebrate the joy that God hath given us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.15>All France will be replete with mirth and joy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.16>When they shall hear how we have play'd the men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.17>'Tis Joan, not we, by whom the day is won;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.18>For which I will divide my crown with her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.19>And all the priests and friars in my realm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.20>Shall in procession sing her endless praise.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.21>A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.22>Than Rhodope's or Memphis' ever was:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.23>In memory of her when she is dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.24>Her ashes, in an urn more precious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.25>Than the rich-jewel'd of Darius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.26>Transported shall be at high festivals</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.27>Before the kings and queens of France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.28>No longer on Saint Denis will we cry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.29>But Joan la Pucelle shall be France's saint.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.30>Come in, and let us banquet royally,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.6.31>After this golden day of victory.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Before Orleans.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter a Sergeant of a band with two Sentinels</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Sergeant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Sirs, take your places and be vigilant:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>If any noise or soldier you perceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Near to the walls, by some apparent sign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>Let us have knowledge at the court of guard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Sentinel</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>Sergeant, you shall.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Sergeant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>Thus are poor servitors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>When others sleep upon their quiet beds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>Constrain'd to watch in darkness, rain and cold.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter TALBOT, BEDFORD, BURGUNDY, and Forces, with scaling-ladders, their drums beating a dead march</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>Lord Regent, and redoubted Burgundy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>By whose approach the regions of Artois,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>Wallon and Picardy are friends to us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>This happy night the Frenchmen are secure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>Having all day caroused and banqueted:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>Embrace we then this opportunity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>As fitting best to quittance their deceit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>Contrived by art and baleful sorcery.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>Coward of France! how much he wrongs his fame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>Despairing of his own arm's fortitude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>To join with witches and the help of hell!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>Traitors have never other company.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>But what's that Pucelle whom they term so pure?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>A maid, they say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23> A maid! and be so martial!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>Pray God she prove not masculine ere long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>If underneath the standard of the French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>She carry armour as she hath begun.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>Well, let them practise and converse with spirits:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>God is our fortress, in whose conquering name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>Ascend, brave Talbot; we will follow thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>Not all together: better far, I guess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>That we do make our entrance several ways;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>That, if it chance the one of us do fail,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>The other yet may rise against their force.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>Agreed: I'll to yond corner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>And I to this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>And here will Talbot mount, or make his grave.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>Now, Salisbury, for thee, and for the right</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>Of English Henry, shall this night appear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>How much in duty I am bound to both.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Sentinels</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>Arm! arm! the enemy doth make assault!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Cry: 'St. George,' 'A Talbot.'</i></p> | |
| <p><i>The French leap over the walls in their shirts. Enter, several ways, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON, and REIGNIER, half ready, and half unready</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>How now, my lords! what, all unready so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>Unready! ay, and glad we 'scaped so well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>'Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>Hearing alarums at our chamber-doors.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>Of all exploits since first I follow'd arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>Ne'er heard I of a warlike enterprise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>More venturous or desperate than this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>I think this Talbot be a fiend of hell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>If not of hell, the heavens, sure, favour him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>Here cometh Charles: I marvel how he sped.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>Tut, holy Joan was his defensive guard.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CHARLES and JOAN LA PUCELLE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>Is this thy cunning, thou deceitful dame?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>Make us partakers of a little gain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>That now our loss might be ten times so much?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>At all times will you have my power alike?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>Sleeping or waking must I still prevail,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>Or will you blame and lay the fault on me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>Improvident soldiers! had your watch been good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>This sudden mischief never could have fall'n.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>Duke of Alencon, this was your default,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>That, being captain of the watch to-night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>Did look no better to that weighty charge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>Had all your quarters been as safely kept</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>As that whereof I had the government,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>We had not been thus shamefully surprised.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>Mine was secure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70> And so was mine, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>And, for myself, most part of all this night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>Within her quarter and mine own precinct</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>I was employ'd in passing to and fro,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>About relieving of the sentinels:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>Then how or which way should they first break in?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>Question, my lords, no further of the case,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>How or which way: 'tis sure they found some place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>But weakly guarded, where the breach was made.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>And now there rests no other shift but this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>To gather our soldiers, scatter'd and dispersed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>And lay new platforms to endamage them.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum. Enter an English Soldier, crying 'A Talbot! a Talbot!' They fly, leaving their clothes behind</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>I'll be so bold to take what they have left.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>The cry of Talbot serves me for a sword;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>For I have loaden me with many spoils,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>Using no other weapon but his name.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Orleans. Within the town.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TALBOT, BEDFORD, BURGUNDY, a Captain, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>The day begins to break, and night is fled,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>Here sound retreat, and cease our hot pursuit.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Retreat sounded</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>Bring forth the body of old Salisbury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>And here advance it in the market-place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>The middle centre of this cursed town.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>Now have I paid my vow unto his soul;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>For every drop of blood was drawn from him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>There hath at least five Frenchmen died tonight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>And that hereafter ages may behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>What ruin happen'd in revenge of him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>Within their chiefest temple I'll erect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interr'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>Upon the which, that every one may read,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>Shall be engraved the sack of Orleans,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>The treacherous manner of his mournful death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>And what a terror he had been to France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>But, lords, in all our bloody massacre,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>I muse we met not with the Dauphin's grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>His new-come champion, virtuous Joan of Arc,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>Nor any of his false confederates.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>'Tis thought, Lord Talbot, when the fight began,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>Roused on the sudden from their drowsy beds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>They did amongst the troops of armed men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>Leap o'er the walls for refuge in the field.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>Myself, as far as I could well discern</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>For smoke and dusky vapours of the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>Am sure I scared the Dauphin and his trull,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>That could not live asunder day or night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>After that things are set in order here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>We'll follow them with all the power we have.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>All hail, my lords! which of this princely train</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>Call ye the warlike Talbot, for his acts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>So much applauded through the realm of France?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>Here is the Talbot: who would speak with him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>The virtuous lady, Countess of Auvergne,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>With modesty admiring thy renown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>By me entreats, great lord, thou wouldst vouchsafe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>To visit her poor castle where she lies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>That she may boast she hath beheld the man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>Whose glory fills the world with loud report.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>Is it even so? Nay, then, I see our wars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>Will turn unto a peaceful comic sport,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>When ladies crave to be encounter'd with.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>You may not, my lord, despise her gentle suit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>Ne'er trust me then; for when a world of men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>Could not prevail with all their oratory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>Yet hath a woman's kindness over-ruled:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>And therefore tell her I return great thanks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52>And in submission will attend on her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>Will not your honours bear me company?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>No, truly; it is more than manners will:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>And I have heard it said, unbidden guests</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>Are often welcomest when they are gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>Well then, alone, since there's no remedy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>I mean to prove this lady's courtesy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>Come hither, captain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Whispers</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>You perceive my mind?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>I do, my lord, and mean accordingly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Auvergne. The COUNTESS's castle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the COUNTESS and her Porter</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>Porter, remember what I gave in charge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>And when you have done so, bring the keys to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Porter</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>Madam, I will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>The plot is laid: if all things fall out right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>I shall as famous be by this exploit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>As Scythian Tomyris by Cyrus' death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>And his achievements of no less account:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>To give their censure of these rare reports.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Messenger and TALBOT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>Madam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>According as your ladyship desired,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>And he is welcome. What! is this the man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>Madam, it is.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20> Is this the scourge of France?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>Is this the Talbot, so much fear'd abroad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>That with his name the mothers still their babes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>I see report is fabulous and false:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>I thought I should have seen some Hercules,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>A second Hector, for his grim aspect,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>Alas, this is a child, a silly dwarf!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>Should strike such terror to his enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>Madam, I have been bold to trouble you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>But since your ladyship is not at leisure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>I'll sort some other time to visit you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>What means he now? Go ask him whither he goes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>Stay, my Lord Talbot; for my lady craves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>To know the cause of your abrupt departure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>Marry, for that she's in a wrong belief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>I go to certify her Talbot's here.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Porter with keys</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>If thou be he, then art thou prisoner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>Prisoner! to whom?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>To me, blood-thirsty lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>And for that cause I trained thee to my house.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>For in my gallery thy picture hangs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>But now the substance shall endure the like,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>And I will chain these legs and arms of thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>That hast by tyranny these many years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>Wasted our country, slain our citizens</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>And sent our sons and husbands captivate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>Ha, ha, ha!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>Laughest thou, wretch? thy mirth shall turn to moan.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>I laugh to see your ladyship so fond</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>To think that you have aught but Talbot's shadow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>Whereon to practise your severity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>Why, art not thou the man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>I am indeed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>Then have I substance too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>No, no, I am but shadow of myself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>You are deceived, my substance is not here;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>For what you see is but the smallest part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>And least proportion of humanity:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>It is of such a spacious lofty pitch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>Your roof were not sufficient to contain't.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>This is a riddling merchant for the nonce;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>He will be here, and yet he is not here:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73>How can these contrarieties agree?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>That will I show you presently.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Winds his horn. Drums strike up: a peal of ordnance. Enter soldiers</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>How say you, madam? are you now persuaded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>That Talbot is but shadow of himself?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>These are his substance, sinews, arms and strength,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.78>With which he yoketh your rebellious necks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.79>Razeth your cities and subverts your towns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.80>And in a moment makes them desolate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.81>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.82>Victorious Talbot! pardon my abuse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.83>I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.84>And more than may be gather'd by thy shape.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.85>Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.86>For I am sorry that with reverence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.87>I did not entertain thee as thou art.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.88>Be not dismay'd, fair lady; nor misconstrue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.89>The mind of Talbot, as you did mistake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.90>The outward composition of his body.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.91>What you have done hath not offended me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.92>Nor other satisfaction do I crave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.93>But only, with your patience, that we may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.94>Taste of your wine and see what cates you have;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.95>For soldiers' stomachs always serve them well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.96>COUNTESS</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>OF AUVERGNE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.97>With all my heart, and think me honoured</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.98>To feast so great a warrior in my house.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. London. The Temple-garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the Earls of SOMERSET, SUFFOLK, and WARWICK; RICHARD PLANTAGENET, VERNON, and another Lawyer</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.1>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.2>Great lords and gentlemen, what means this silence?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.3>Dare no man answer in a case of truth?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.4>Within the Temple-hall we were too loud;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.5>The garden here is more convenient.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.6>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.7>Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.8>Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.9>Faith, I have been a truant in the law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.10>And never yet could frame my will to it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.11>And therefore frame the law unto my will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.12>Judge you, my Lord of Warwick, then, between us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.13>Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.14>Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.15>Between two blades, which bears the better temper:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.16>Between two horses, which doth bear him best;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.17>Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.18>I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.19>But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.20>Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.21>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.22>Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.23>The truth appears so naked on my side</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.24>That any purblind eye may find it out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.25>And on my side it is so well apparell'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.26>So clear, so shining and so evident</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.27>That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.28>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.29>Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.30>In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.31>Let him that is a true-born gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.32>And stands upon the honour of his birth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.33>If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.34>From off this brier pluck a white rose with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.35>Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.36>But dare maintain the party of the truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.37>Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.38>I love no colours, and without all colour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.39>Of base insinuating flattery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.40>I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.41>I pluck this red rose with young Somerset</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.42>And say withal I think he held the right.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.43>Stay, lords and gentlemen, and pluck no more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.44>Till you conclude that he upon whose side</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.45>The fewest roses are cropp'd from the tree</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.46>Shall yield the other in the right opinion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.47>Good Master Vernon, it is well objected:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.48>If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.49>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.50>And I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.51>Then for the truth and plainness of the case.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.52>I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.53>Giving my verdict on the white rose side.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.54>Prick not your finger as you pluck it off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.55>Lest bleeding you do paint the white rose red</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.56>And fall on my side so, against your will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.57>If I my lord, for my opinion bleed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.58>Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.59>And keep me on the side where still I am.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.60>Well, well, come on: who else?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Lawyer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.61>Unless my study and my books be false,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.62>The argument you held was wrong in you:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To SOMERSET</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.63>In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.64>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.65>Now, Somerset, where is your argument?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.66>Here in my scabbard, meditating that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.67>Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.68>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.69>Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.70>For pale they look with fear, as witnessing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.71>The truth on our side.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.72>No, Plantagenet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.73>'Tis not for fear but anger that thy cheeks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.74>Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.75>And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.76>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.77>Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.78>Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.79>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.80>Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.81>Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.82>Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.83>That shall maintain what I have said is true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.84>Where false Plantagenet dare not be seen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.85>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.86>Now, by this maiden blossom in my hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.87>I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.88>Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.89>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.90>Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.91>I'll turn my part thereof into thy throat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.92>Away, away, good William de la Pole!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.93>We grace the yeoman by conversing with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.94>Now, by God's will, thou wrong'st him, Somerset;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.95>His grandfather was Lionel Duke of Clarence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.96>Third son to the third Edward King of England:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.97>Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.98>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.99>He bears him on the place's privilege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.100>Or durst not, for his craven heart, say thus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.101>By him that made me, I'll maintain my words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.102>On any plot of ground in Christendom.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.103>Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.104>For treason executed in our late king's days?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.105>And, by his treason, stand'st not thou attainted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.106>Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.107>His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.108>And, till thou be restored, thou art a yeoman.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.109>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.110>My father was attached, not attainted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.111>Condemn'd to die for treason, but no traitor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.112>And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.113>Were growing time once ripen'd to my will.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.114>For your partaker Pole and you yourself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.115>I'll note you in my book of memory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.116>To scourge you for this apprehension:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.117>Look to it well and say you are well warn'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.118>Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.119>And know us by these colours for thy foes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.120>For these my friends in spite of thee shall wear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.121>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.122>And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.123>As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.124>Will I for ever and my faction wear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.125>Until it wither with me to my grave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.126>Or flourish to the height of my degree.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.127>Go forward and be choked with thy ambition!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.128>And so farewell until I meet thee next.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.129>Have with thee, Pole. Farewell, ambitious Richard.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.130>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.131>How I am braved and must perforce endure it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.132>This blot that they object against your house</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.133>Shall be wiped out in the next parliament</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.134>Call'd for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.135>And if thou be not then created York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.136>I will not live to be accounted Warwick.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.137>Meantime, in signal of my love to thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.138>Against proud Somerset and William Pole,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.139>Will I upon thy party wear this rose:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.140>And here I prophesy: this brawl to-day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.141>Grown to this faction in the Temple-garden,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.142>Shall send between the red rose and the white</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.143>A thousand souls to death and deadly night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.144>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.145>Good Master Vernon, I am bound to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.146>That you on my behalf would pluck a flower.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.147>In your behalf still will I wear the same.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>Lawyer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.148>And so will I.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.149>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.150>Thanks, gentle sir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.151>Come, let us four to dinner: I dare say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.152>This quarrel will drink blood another day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. The Tower of London.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MORTIMER, brought in a chair, and Gaolers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.1>Kind keepers of my weak decaying age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.2>Let dying Mortimer here rest himself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.3>Even like a man new haled from the rack,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.4>So fare my limbs with long imprisonment.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.5>And these grey locks, the pursuivants of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.6>Nestor-like aged in an age of care,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.7>Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.8>These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.9>Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.10>Weak shoulders, overborne with burthening grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.11>And pithless arms, like to a wither'd vine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.12>That droops his sapless branches to the ground;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.13>Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is numb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.14>Unable to support this lump of clay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.15>Swift-winged with desire to get a grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.16>As witting I no other comfort have.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.17>But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Gaoler</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.18>Richard Plantagenet, my lord, will come:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.19>We sent unto the Temple, unto his chamber;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.20>And answer was return'd that he will come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.21>Enough: my soul shall then be satisfied.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.22>Poor gentleman! his wrong doth equal mine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.23>Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.24>Before whose glory I was great in arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.25>This loathsome sequestration have I had:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.26>And even since then hath Richard been obscured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.27>Deprived of honour and inheritance.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.28>But now the arbitrator of despairs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.29>Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.30>With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.31>I would his troubles likewise were expired,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.32>That so he might recover what was lost.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter RICHARD PLANTAGENET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Gaoler</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.33>My lord, your loving nephew now is come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.34>Richard Plantagenet, my friend, is he come?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.35>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.36>Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly used,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.37>Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.38>Direct mine arms I may embrace his neck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.39>And in his bosom spend my latter gasp:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.40>O, tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.41>That I may kindly give one fainting kiss.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.42>And now declare, sweet stem from York's great stock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.43>Why didst thou say, of late thou wert despised?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.44>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.45>First, lean thine aged back against mine arm;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.46>And, in that ease, I'll tell thee my disease.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.47>This day, in argument upon a case,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.48>Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.49>Among which terms he used his lavish tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.50>And did upbraid me with my father's death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.51>Which obloquy set bars before my tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.52>Else with the like I had requited him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.53>Therefore, good uncle, for my father's sake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.54>In honour of a true Plantagenet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.55>And for alliance sake, declare the cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.56>My father, Earl of Cambridge, lost his head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.57>That cause, fair nephew, that imprison'd me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.58>And hath detain'd me all my flowering youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.59>Within a loathsome dungeon, there to pine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.60>Was cursed instrument of his decease.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.61>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.62>Discover more at large what cause that was,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.63>For I am ignorant and cannot guess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.64>I will, if that my fading breath permit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.65>And death approach not ere my tale be done.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.66>Henry the Fourth, grandfather to this king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.67>Deposed his nephew Richard, Edward's son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.68>The first-begotten and the lawful heir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.69>Of Edward king, the third of that descent:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.70>During whose reign the Percies of the north,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.71>Finding his usurpation most unjust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.72>Endeavor'd my advancement to the throne:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.73>The reason moved these warlike lords to this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.74>Was, for that--young King Richard thus removed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.75>Leaving no heir begotten of his body--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.76>I was the next by birth and parentage;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.77>For by my mother I derived am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.78>From Lionel Duke of Clarence, the third son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.79>To King Edward the Third; whereas he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.80>From John of Gaunt doth bring his pedigree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.81>Being but fourth of that heroic line.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.82>But mark: as in this haughty attempt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.83>They laboured to plant the rightful heir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.84>I lost my liberty and they their lives.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.85>Long after this, when Henry the Fifth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.86>Succeeding his father Bolingbroke, did reign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.87>Thy father, Earl of Cambridge, then derived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.88>From famous Edmund Langley, Duke of York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.89>Marrying my sister that thy mother was,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.90>Again in pity of my hard distress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.91>Levied an army, weening to redeem</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.92>And have install'd me in the diadem:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.93>But, as the rest, so fell that noble earl</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.94>And was beheaded. Thus the Mortimers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.95>In whom the tide rested, were suppress'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.96>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.97>Of which, my lord, your honour is the last.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.98>True; and thou seest that I no issue have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.99>And that my fainting words do warrant death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.100>Thou art my heir; the rest I wish thee gather:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.101>But yet be wary in thy studious care.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.102>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.103>Thy grave admonishments prevail with me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.104>But yet, methinks, my father's execution</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.105>Was nothing less than bloody tyranny.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.106>With silence, nephew, be thou politic:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.107>Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.108>And like a mountain, not to be removed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.109>But now thy uncle is removing hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.110>As princes do their courts, when they are cloy'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.111>With long continuance in a settled place.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.112>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.113>O, uncle, would some part of my young years</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.114>Might but redeem the passage of your age!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MORTIMER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.115>Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.116>Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.117>Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.118>Only give order for my funeral:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.119>And so farewell, and fair be all thy hopes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.120>And prosperous be thy life in peace and war!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.121>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.122>And peace, no war, befall thy parting soul!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.123>In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.124>And like a hermit overpass'd thy days.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.125>Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.126>And what I do imagine let that rest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.127>Keepers, convey him hence, and I myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.128>Will see his burial better than his life.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Gaolers, bearing out the body of MORTIMER</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.129>Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.130>Choked with ambition of the meaner sort:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.131>And for those wrongs, those bitter injuries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.132>Which Somerset hath offer'd to my house:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.133>I doubt not but with honour to redress;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.134>And therefore haste I to the parliament,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.135>Either to be restored to my blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.136>Or make my ill the advantage of my good.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. The Parliament-house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, EXETER, GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, SOMERSET, and SUFFOLK; the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, and others. GLOUCESTER offers to put up a bill; BISHOP OF WINCHESTER snatches it, and tears it</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>Comest thou with deep premeditated lines,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>With written pamphlets studiously devised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>Humphrey of Gloucester? If thou canst accuse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>Do it without invention, suddenly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>As I with sudden and extemporal speech</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>Purpose to answer what thou canst object.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>Presumptuous priest! this place commands my patience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonour'd me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>Think not, although in writing I preferr'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>That therefore I have forged, or am not able</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>No, prelate; such is thy audacious wickedness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>Thy lewd, pestiferous and dissentious pranks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>As very infants prattle of thy pride.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>Thou art a most pernicious usurer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>Forward by nature, enemy to peace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>A man of thy profession and degree;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>And for thy treachery, what's more manifest?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>In that thou laid'st a trap to take my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>As well at London bridge as at the Tower.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>The king, thy sovereign, is not quite exempt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>From envious malice of thy swelling heart.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>Gloucester, I do defy thee. Lords, vouchsafe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>To give me hearing what I shall reply.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>If I were covetous, ambitious or perverse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>As he will have me, how am I so poor?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>Or how haps it I seek not to advance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>Or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>And for dissension, who preferreth peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>More than I do?--except I be provoked.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>No, my good lords, it is not that offends;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>It is not that that hath incensed the duke:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>It is, because no one should sway but he;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>No one but he should be about the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>And that engenders thunder in his breast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>And makes him roar these accusations forth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>But he shall know I am as good--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>As good!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>Thou bastard of my grandfather!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>Ay, lordly sir; for what are you, I pray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>But one imperious in another's throne?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>Am I not protector, saucy priest?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>And am not I a prelate of the church?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>Yes, as an outlaw in a castle keeps</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>And useth it to patronage his theft.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>Unreverent Gloster!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>Thou art reverent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>Rome shall remedy this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>Roam thither, then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>My lord, it were your duty to forbear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>Ay, see the bishop be not overborne.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>Methinks my lord should be religious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>And know the office that belongs to such.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>Methinks his lordship should be humbler;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>it fitteth not a prelate so to plead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>Yes, when his holy state is touch'd so near.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>State holy or unhallow'd, what of that?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>Is not his grace protector to the king?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>[Aside] Plantagenet, I see, must hold his tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>Lest it be said 'Speak, sirrah, when you should;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>Must your bold verdict enter talk with lords?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>Else would I have a fling at Winchester.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>The special watchmen of our English weal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>To join your hearts in love and amity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>O, what a scandal is it to our crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>That two such noble peers as ye should jar!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>Civil dissension is a viperous worm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A noise within, 'Down with the tawny-coats!'</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>What tumult's this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>An uproar, I dare warrant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>Begun through malice of the bishop's men.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A noise again, 'Stones! stones!' Enter Mayor</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Mayor</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>O, my good lords, and virtuous Henry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>Pity the city of London, pity us!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>The bishop and the Duke of Gloucester's men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>Forbidden late to carry any weapon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>Have fill'd their pockets full of pebble stones</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>And banding themselves in contrary parts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>Do pelt so fast at one another's pate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>That many have their giddy brains knock'd out:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>Our windows are broke down in every street</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>And we for fear compell'd to shut our shops.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Serving-men, in skirmish, with bloody pates</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>To hold your slaughtering hands and keep the peace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>Pray, uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>First Serving-man Nay, if we be forbidden stones,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>We'll fall to it with our teeth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>Second Serving-man Do what ye dare, we are as resolute.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Skirmish again</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>You of my household, leave this peevish broil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>And set this unaccustom'd fight aside.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>Third Serving-man My lord, we know your grace to be a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>Just and upright; and, for your royal birth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107>Inferior to none but to his majesty:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>And ere that we will suffer such a prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>So kind a father of the commonweal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>We and our wives and children all will fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.112>And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.113>First Serving-man Ay, and the very parings of our nails</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.114>Shall pitch a field when we are dead.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Begin again</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.115>Stay, stay, I say!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.116>And if you love me, as you say you do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.117>Let me persuade you to forbear awhile.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.118>O, how this discord doth afflict my soul!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.119>Can you, my Lord of Winchester, behold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.120>My sighs and tears and will not once relent?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.121>Who should be pitiful, if you be not?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.122>Or who should study to prefer a peace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.123>If holy churchmen take delight in broils?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.124>Yield, my lord protector; yield, Winchester;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.125>Except you mean with obstinate repulse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.126>To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.127>You see what mischief and what murder too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.128>Hath been enacted through your enmity;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.129>Then be at peace except ye thirst for blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.130>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.131>He shall submit, or I will never yield.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.132>Compassion on the king commands me stoop;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.133>Or I would see his heart out, ere the priest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.134>Should ever get that privilege of me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.135>Behold, my Lord of Winchester, the duke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.136>Hath banish'd moody discontented fury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.137>As by his smoothed brows it doth appear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.138>Why look you still so stern and tragical?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.139>Here, Winchester, I offer thee my hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.140>Fie, uncle Beaufort! I have heard you preach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.141>That malice was a great and grievous sin;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.142>And will not you maintain the thing you teach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.143>But prove a chief offender in the same?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.144>Sweet king! the bishop hath a kindly gird.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.145>For shame, my lord of Winchester, relent!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.146>What, shall a child instruct you what to do?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.147>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.148>Well, Duke of Gloucester, I will yield to thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.149>Love for thy love and hand for hand I give.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.150>[Aside] Ay, but, I fear me, with a hollow heart.--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.151>See here, my friends and loving countrymen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.152>This token serveth for a flag of truce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.153>Betwixt ourselves and all our followers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.154>So help me God, as I dissemble not!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.155>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.156>[Aside] So help me God, as I intend it not!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.157>O, loving uncle, kind Duke of Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.158>How joyful am I made by this contract!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.159>Away, my masters! trouble us no more;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.160>But join in friendship, as your lords have done.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.161>First Serving-man Content: I'll to the surgeon's.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.162>Second Serving-man And so will I.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.163>Third Serving-man And I will see what physic the tavern affords.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Serving-men, Mayor, & c</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.164>Accept this scroll, most gracious sovereign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.165>Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.166>We do exhibit to your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.167>Well urged, my Lord of Warwick: or sweet prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.168>And if your grace mark every circumstance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.169>You have great reason to do Richard right;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.170>Especially for those occasions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.171>At Eltham Place I told your majesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.172>And those occasions, uncle, were of force:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.173>Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.174>That Richard be restored to his blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.175>Let Richard be restored to his blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.176>So shall his father's wrongs be recompensed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.177>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.178>As will the rest, so willeth Winchester.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.179>If Richard will be true, not that alone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.180>But all the whole inheritance I give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.181>That doth belong unto the house of York,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.182>From whence you spring by lineal descent.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.183>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.184>Thy humble servant vows obedience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.185>And humble service till the point of death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.186>Stoop then and set your knee against my foot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.187>And, in reguerdon of that duty done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.188>I gird thee with the valiant sword of York:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.189>Rise Richard, like a true Plantagenet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.190>And rise created princely Duke of York.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.191>RICHARD</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>PLANTAGENET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.192>And so thrive Richard as thy foes may fall!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.193>And as my duty springs, so perish they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.194>That grudge one thought against your majesty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>ALL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.195>Welcome, high prince, the mighty Duke of York!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.196>[Aside] Perish, base prince, ignoble Duke of York!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.197>Now will it best avail your majesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.198>To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.199>The presence of a king engenders love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.200>Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.201>As it disanimates his enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.202>When Gloucester says the word, King Henry goes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.203>For friendly counsel cuts off many foes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.204>Your ships already are in readiness.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but EXETER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.205>Ay, we may march in England or in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.206>Not seeing what is likely to ensue.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.207>This late dissension grown betwixt the peers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.208>Burns under feigned ashes of forged love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.209>And will at last break out into a flame:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.210>As fester'd members rot but by degree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.211>Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.212>So will this base and envious discord breed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.213>And now I fear that fatal prophecy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.214>Which in the time of Henry named the Fifth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.215>Was in the mouth of every sucking babe;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.216>That Henry born at Monmouth should win all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.217>And Henry born at Windsor lose all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.218>Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.219>His days may finish ere that hapless time.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. France. Before Rouen.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE disguised, with four Soldiers with sacks upon their backs</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>Through which our policy must make a breach:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>Take heed, be wary how you place your words;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>Talk like the vulgar sort of market men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>That come to gather money for their corn.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>If we have entrance, as I hope we shall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>And that we find the slothful watch but weak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>I'll by a sign give notice to our friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>And we be lords and rulers over Rouen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>Therefore we'll knock.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Knocks</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Watch</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>[Within] Qui est la?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>Paysans, pauvres gens de France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>Poor market folks that come to sell their corn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Watch</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>Enter, go in; the market bell is rung.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks to the ground.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter CHARLES, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON, REIGNIER, and forces</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>And once again we'll sleep secure in Rouen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>Here enter'd Pucelle and her practisants;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>Now she is there, how will she specify</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>Where is the best and safest passage in?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>Which, once discern'd, shows that her meaning is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>No way to that, for weakness, which she enter'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE on the top, thrusting out a torch burning</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>Behold, this is the happy wedding torch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>But burning fatal to the Talbotites!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>See, noble Charles, the beacon of our friend;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>The burning torch in yonder turret stands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>Now shine it like a comet of revenge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>A prophet to the fall of all our foes!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>Enter, and cry 'The Dauphin!' presently,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>And then do execution on the watch.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>An alarum. Enter TALBOT in an excursion</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>If Talbot but survive thy treachery.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>That hardly we escaped the pride of France.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>An alarum: excursions. BEDFORD, brought in sick in a chair. Enter TALBOT and BURGUNDY without: within JOAN LA PUCELLE, CHARLES, BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON, and REIGNIER, on the walls</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>Good morrow, gallants! want ye corn for bread?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>Before he'll buy again at such a rate:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>'Twas full of darnel; do you like the taste?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>Scoff on, vile fiend and shameless courtezan!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>I trust ere long to choke thee with thine own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>And make thee curse the harvest of that corn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>Your grace may starve perhaps before that time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>O, let no words, but deeds, revenge this treason!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>What will you do, good grey-beard? break a lance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>And run a tilt at death within a chair?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>Foul fiend of France, and hag of all despite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>Encompass'd with thy lustful paramours!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>And twit with cowardice a man half dead?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>Damsel, I'll have a bout with you again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>Or else let Talbot perish with this shame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>Are ye so hot, sir? yet, Pucelle, hold thy peace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>If Talbot do but thunder, rain will follow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The English whisper together in council</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>God speed the parliament! who shall be the speaker?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>Dare ye come forth and meet us in the field?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>Belike your lordship takes us then for fools,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>To try if that our own be ours or no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>I speak not to that railing Hecate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>But unto thee, Alencon, and the rest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>Will ye, like soldiers, come and fight it out?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>Signior, no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>Signior, hang! base muleters of France!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>Like peasant foot-boys do they keep the walls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>And dare not take up arms like gentlemen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>Away, captains! let's get us from the walls;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>For Talbot means no goodness by his looks.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>God be wi' you, my lord! we came but to tell you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>That we are here.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt from the walls</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>And there will we be too, ere it be long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>Or else reproach be Talbot's greatest fame!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>Vow, Burgundy, by honour of thy house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>Prick'd on by public wrongs sustain'd in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>Either to get the town again or die:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>And I, as sure as English Henry lives</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>And as his father here was conqueror,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>As sure as in this late-betrayed town</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>Great Coeur-de-lion's heart was buried,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>So sure I swear to get the town or die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>My vows are equal partners with thy vows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>But, ere we go, regard this dying prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>The valiant Duke of Bedford. Come, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>We will bestow you in some better place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>Lord Talbot, do not so dishonour me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>Here will I sit before the walls of Rouen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>And will be partner of your weal or woe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>Not to be gone from hence; for once I read</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>That stout Pendragon in his litter sick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>Came to the field and vanquished his foes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>Methinks I should revive the soldiers' hearts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>Because I ever found them as myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>Undaunted spirit in a dying breast!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>Then be it so: heavens keep old Bedford safe!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>And now no more ado, brave Burgundy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>But gather we our forces out of hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>And set upon our boasting enemy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but BEDFORD and Attendants</i></p> | |
| <p><i>An alarum: excursions. Enter FASTOLFE and a Captain</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>Whither away, Sir John Fastolfe, in such haste?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>FASTOLFE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>Whither away! to save myself by flight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>We are like to have the overthrow again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>What! will you fly, and leave Lord Talbot?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>FASTOLFE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>Ay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>All the Talbots in the world, to save my life!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>Cowardly knight! ill fortune follow thee!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Retreat: excursions. JOAN LA PUCELLE, ALENCON, and CHARLES fly</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>BEDFORD</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>Now, quiet soul, depart when heaven please,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>For I have seen our enemies' overthrow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>What is the trust or strength of foolish man?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>They that of late were daring with their scoffs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>BEDFORD dies, and is carried in by two in his chair</i></p> | |
| <p><i>An alarum. Re-enter TALBOT, BURGUNDY, and the rest</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>Lost, and recover'd in a day again!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>This is a double honour, Burgundy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>Yet heavens have glory for this victory!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>Enshrines thee in his heart and there erects</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>Thy noble deeds as valour's monuments.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>Thanks, gentle duke. But where is Pucelle now?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>I think her old familiar is asleep:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>Now where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.126>That such a valiant company are fled.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.127>Now will we take some order in the town,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.128>Placing therein some expert officers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.129>And then depart to Paris to the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.130>For there young Henry with his nobles lie.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.131>What wills Lord Talbot pleaseth Burgundy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.132>But yet, before we go, let's not forget</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.133>The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.134>But see his exequies fulfill'd in Rouen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.135>A braver soldier never couched lance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.136>A gentler heart did never sway in court;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.137>But kings and mightiest potentates must die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.138>For that's the end of human misery.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The plains near Rouen.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CHARLES, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON, JOAN LA PUCELLE, and forces</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>Dismay not, princes, at this accident,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>Nor grieve that Rouen is so recovered:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>For things that are not to be remedied.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>And like a peacock sweep along his tail;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>We have been guided by thee hitherto,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>And of thy cunning had no diffidence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>One sudden foil shall never breed distrust.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>Search out thy wit for secret policies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>And we will make thee famous through the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>We'll set thy statue in some holy place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>Employ thee then, sweet virgin, for our good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>By fair persuasions mix'd with sugar'd words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>We will entice the Duke of Burgundy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>To leave the Talbot and to follow us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>Ay, marry, sweeting, if we could do that,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>France were no place for Henry's warriors;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>Nor should that nation boast it so with us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>But be extirped from our provinces.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>For ever should they be expulsed from France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.26>And not have title of an earldom here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.27>Your honours shall perceive how I will work</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.28>To bring this matter to the wished end.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drum sounds afar off</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.29>Hark! by the sound of drum you may perceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.30>Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here sound an English march. Enter, and pass over at a distance, TALBOT and his forces</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.31>There goes the Talbot, with his colours spread,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.32>And all the troops of English after him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>French march. Enter BURGUNDY and forces</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.33>Now in the rearward comes the duke and his:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.34>Fortune in favour makes him lag behind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.35>Summon a parley; we will talk with him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpets sound a parley</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.36>A parley with the Duke of Burgundy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.37>Who craves a parley with the Burgundy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.38>The princely Charles of France, thy countryman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.39>What say'st thou, Charles? for I am marching hence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.40>Speak, Pucelle, and enchant him with thy words.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.41>Brave Burgundy, undoubted hope of France!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.42>Stay, let thy humble handmaid speak to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.43>Speak on; but be not over-tedious.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.44>Look on thy country, look on fertile France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.45>And see the cities and the towns defaced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.46>By wasting ruin of the cruel foe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.47>As looks the mother on her lowly babe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.48>When death doth close his tender dying eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.49>See, see the pining malady of France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.50>Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.51>Which thou thyself hast given her woful breast.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.52>O, turn thy edged sword another way;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.53>Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.54>One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.55>Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.56>Return thee therefore with a flood of tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.57>And wash away thy country's stained spots.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.58>Either she hath bewitch'd me with her words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.59>Or nature makes me suddenly relent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.60>Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.61>Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.62>Who joint'st thou with but with a lordly nation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.63>That will not trust thee but for profit's sake?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.64>When Talbot hath set footing once in France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.65>And fashion'd thee that instrument of ill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.66>Who then but English Henry will be lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.67>And thou be thrust out like a fugitive?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.68>Call we to mind, and mark but this for proof,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.69>Was not the Duke of Orleans thy foe?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.70>And was he not in England prisoner?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.71>But when they heard he was thine enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.72>They set him free without his ransom paid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.73>In spite of Burgundy and all his friends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.74>See, then, thou fight'st against thy countrymen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.75>And joint'st with them will be thy slaughtermen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.76>Come, come, return; return, thou wandering lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.77>Charles and the rest will take thee in their arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.78>I am vanquished; these haughty words of hers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.79>Have batter'd me like roaring cannon-shot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.80>And made me almost yield upon my knees.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.81>Forgive me, country, and sweet countrymen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.82>And, lords, accept this hearty kind embrace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.83>My forces and my power of men are yours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.84>So farewell, Talbot; I'll no longer trust thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.85>[Aside] Done like a Frenchman: turn, and turn again!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.86>Welcome, brave duke! thy friendship makes us fresh.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.87>And doth beget new courage in our breasts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.88>Pucelle hath bravely play'd her part in this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.89>And doth deserve a coronet of gold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.90>Now let us on, my lords, and join our powers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.91>And seek how we may prejudice the foe.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Paris. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, SOMERSET, WARWICK, EXETER, VERNON BASSET, and others. To them with his Soldiers, TALBOT</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.1>My gracious prince, and honourable peers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.2>Hearing of your arrival in this realm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.3>I have awhile given truce unto my wars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.4>To do my duty to my sovereign:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.5>In sign, whereof, this arm, that hath reclaim'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.6>To your obedience fifty fortresses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.7>Twelve cities and seven walled towns of strength,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.8>Beside five hundred prisoners of esteem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.9>Lets fall his sword before your highness' feet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.10>And with submissive loyalty of heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.11>Ascribes the glory of his conquest got</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.12>First to my God and next unto your grace.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kneels</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.13>Is this the Lord Talbot, uncle Gloucester,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.14>That hath so long been resident in France?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.15>Yes, if it please your majesty, my liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.16>Welcome, brave captain and victorious lord!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.17>When I was young, as yet I am not old,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.18>I do remember how my father said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.19>A stouter champion never handled sword.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.20>Long since we were resolved of your truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.21>Your faithful service and your toil in war;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.22>Yet never have you tasted our reward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.23>Or been reguerdon'd with so much as thanks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.24>Because till now we never saw your face:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.25>Therefore, stand up; and, for these good deserts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.26>We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.27>And in our coronation take your place.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but VERNON and BASSET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.28>Now, sir, to you, that were so hot at sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.29>Disgracing of these colours that I wear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.30>In honour of my noble Lord of York:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.31>Darest thou maintain the former words thou spakest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BASSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.32>Yes, sir; as well as you dare patronage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.33>The envious barking of your saucy tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.34>Against my lord the Duke of Somerset.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.35>Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BASSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.36>Why, what is he? as good a man as York.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.37>Hark ye; not so: in witness, take ye that.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Strikes him</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BASSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.38>Villain, thou know'st the law of arms is such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.39>That whoso draws a sword, 'tis present death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.40>Or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.41>But I'll unto his majesty, and crave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.42>I may have liberty to venge this wrong;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.43>When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.44>Well, miscreant, I'll be there as soon as you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.45>And, after, meet you sooner than you would.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Paris. A hall of state.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, SOMERSET, WARWICK, TALBOT, EXETER, the Governor, of Paris, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Lord bishop, set the crown upon his head.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>BISHOP</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>God save King Henry, of that name the sixth!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>Now, governor of Paris, take your oath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>That you elect no other king but him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>Esteem none friends but such as are his friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>And none your foes but such as shall pretend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>Malicious practises against his state:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>This shall ye do, so help you righteous God!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter FASTOLFE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FASTOLFE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>My gracious sovereign, as I rode from Calais,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>To haste unto your coronation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>A letter was deliver'd to my hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>Writ to your grace from the Duke of Burgundy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>I vow'd, base knight, when I did meet thee next,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>To tear the garter from thy craven's leg,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Plucking it off</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>Which I have done, because unworthily</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>Thou wast installed in that high degree.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>Pardon me, princely Henry, and the rest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>This dastard, at the battle of Patay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>When but in all I was six thousand strong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>And that the French were almost ten to one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>Before we met or that a stroke was given,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>Like to a trusty squire did run away:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>In which assault we lost twelve hundred men;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>Myself and divers gentlemen beside</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>Were there surprised and taken prisoners.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>Then judge, great lords, if I have done amiss;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>Or whether that such cowards ought to wear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>This ornament of knighthood, yea or no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>To say the truth, this fact was infamous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>And ill beseeming any common man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>When first this order was ordain'd, my lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>Knights of the garter were of noble birth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>Such as were grown to credit by the wars;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>But always resolute in most extremes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>He then that is not furnish'd in this sort</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Profaning this most honourable order,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>And should, if I were worthy to be judge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>That doth presume to boast of gentle blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>Stain to thy countrymen, thou hear'st thy doom!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>Be packing, therefore, thou that wast a knight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>Henceforth we banish thee, on pain of death.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit FASTOLFE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>And now, my lord protector, view the letter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>Sent from our uncle Duke of Burgundy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>What means his grace, that he hath changed his style?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>No more but, plain and bluntly, 'To the king!'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>Hath he forgot he is his sovereign?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>Or doth this churlish superscription</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>Pretend some alteration in good will?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>What's here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>'I have, upon especial cause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>Moved with compassion of my country's wreck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>Together with the pitiful complaints</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>Of such as your oppression feeds upon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Forsaken your pernicious faction</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>And join'd with Charles, the rightful King of France.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>O monstrous treachery! can this be so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>That in alliance, amity and oaths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>There should be found such false dissembling guile?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>What! doth my uncle Burgundy revolt?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>He doth, my lord, and is become your foe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>Is that the worst this letter doth contain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>It is the worst, and all, my lord, he writes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>Why, then, Lord Talbot there shall talk with him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>And give him chastisement for this abuse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>How say you, my lord? are you not content?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>Content, my liege! yes, but that I am prevented,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>I should have begg'd I might have been employ'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>Then gather strength and march unto him straight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>And what offence it is to flout his friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>I go, my lord, in heart desiring still</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>You may behold confusion of your foes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter VERNON and BASSET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>Grant me the combat, gracious sovereign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BASSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>And me, my lord, grant me the combat too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>This is my servant: hear him, noble prince.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>And this is mine: sweet Henry, favour him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>Be patient, lords; and give them leave to speak.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>Say, gentlemen, what makes you thus exclaim?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>And wherefore crave you combat? or with whom?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>With him, my lord; for he hath done me wrong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BASSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>And I with him; for he hath done me wrong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>What is that wrong whereof you both complain?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>First let me know, and then I'll answer you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BASSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>Crossing the sea from England into France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>This fellow here, with envious carping tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>Upbraided me about the rose I wear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>Saying, the sanguine colour of the leaves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>Did represent my master's blushing cheeks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>When stubbornly he did repugn the truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>About a certain question in the law</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>Argued betwixt the Duke of York and him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>With other vile and ignominious terms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>In confutation of which rude reproach</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>And in defence of my lord's worthiness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>I crave the benefit of law of arms.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>And that is my petition, noble lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>For though he seem with forged quaint conceit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>To set a gloss upon his bold intent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>Yet know, my lord, I was provoked by him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107>And he first took exceptions at this badge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>Will not this malice, Somerset, be left?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>Your private grudge, my Lord of York, will out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>When for so slight and frivolous a cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115>Such factious emulations shall arise!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>Good cousins both, of York and Somerset,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>Let this dissension first be tried by fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>And then your highness shall command a peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>The quarrel toucheth none but us alone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>There is my pledge; accept it, Somerset.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>VERNON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>Nay, let it rest where it began at first.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BASSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>Confirm it so, mine honourable lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>Confirm it so! Confounded be your strife!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>And perish ye, with your audacious prate!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>Presumptuous vassals, are you not ashamed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>With this immodest clamorous outrage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>To trouble and disturb the king and us?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>And you, my lords, methinks you do not well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.131>To bear with their perverse objections;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.132>Much less to take occasion from their mouths</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.133>To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.134>Let me persuade you take a better course.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.135>It grieves his highness: good my lords, be friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.136>Come hither, you that would be combatants:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.137>Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.138>Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.139>And you, my lords, remember where we are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.140>In France, amongst a fickle wavering nation:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.141>If they perceive dissension in our looks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.142>And that within ourselves we disagree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.143>How will their grudging stomachs be provoked</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.144>To wilful disobedience, and rebel!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.145>Beside, what infamy will there arise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.146>When foreign princes shall be certified</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.147>That for a toy, a thing of no regard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.148>King Henry's peers and chief nobility</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.149>Destroy'd themselves, and lost the realm of France!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.150>O, think upon the conquest of my father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.151>My tender years, and let us not forego</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.152>That for a trifle that was bought with blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.153>Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.154>I see no reason, if I wear this rose,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Putting on a red rose</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.155>That any one should therefore be suspicious</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.156>I more incline to Somerset than York:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.157>Both are my kinsmen, and I love them both:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.158>As well they may upbraid me with my crown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.159>Because, forsooth, the king of Scots is crown'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.160>But your discretions better can persuade</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.161>Than I am able to instruct or teach:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.162>And therefore, as we hither came in peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.163>So let us still continue peace and love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.164>Cousin of York, we institute your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.165>To be our regent in these parts of France:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.166>And, good my Lord of Somerset, unite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.167>Your troops of horsemen with his bands of foot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.168>And, like true subjects, sons of your progenitors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.169>Go cheerfully together and digest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.170>Your angry choler on your enemies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.171>Ourself, my lord protector and the rest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.172>After some respite will return to Calais;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.173>From thence to England; where I hope ere long</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.174>To be presented, by your victories,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.175>With Charles, Alencon and that traitorous rout.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt all but YORK, WARWICK, EXETER and VERNON</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.176>My Lord of York, I promise you, the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.177>Prettily, methought, did play the orator.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.178>And so he did; but yet I like it not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.179>In that he wears the badge of Somerset.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.180>Tush, that was but his fancy, blame him not;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.181>I dare presume, sweet prince, he thought no harm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.182>An if I wist he did,--but let it rest;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.183>Other affairs must now be managed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but EXETER</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.184>Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.185>For, had the passions of thy heart burst out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.186>I fear we should have seen decipher'd there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.187>More rancorous spite, more furious raging broils,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.188>Than yet can be imagined or supposed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.189>But howsoe'er, no simple man that sees</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.190>This jarring discord of nobility,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.191>This shouldering of each other in the court,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.192>This factious bandying of their favourites,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.193>But that it doth presage some ill event.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.194>'Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.195>But more when envy breeds unkind division;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.196>There comes the rain, there begins confusion.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Before Bourdeaux.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TALBOT, with trump and drum</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Go to the gates of Bourdeaux, trumpeter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>Summon their general unto the wall.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpet sounds. Enter General and others, aloft</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>English John Talbot, captains, calls you forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>Servant in arms to Harry King of England;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>And thus he would: Open your city gates;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>Be humble to us; call my sovereign yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>And do him homage as obedient subjects;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>And I'll withdraw me and my bloody power:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>But, if you frown upon this proffer'd peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>You tempt the fury of my three attendants,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>Who in a moment even with the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>If you forsake the offer of their love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>General</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>Thou ominous and fearful owl of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>Our nation's terror and their bloody scourge!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>The period of thy tyranny approacheth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>On us thou canst not enter but by death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>For, I protest, we are well fortified</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>And strong enough to issue out and fight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>On either hand thee there are squadrons pitch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>To wall thee from the liberty of flight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>And no way canst thou turn thee for redress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>But death doth front thee with apparent spoil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>And pale destruction meets thee in the face.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>To rive their dangerous artillery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>Upon no Christian soul but English Talbot.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>Lo, there thou stand'st, a breathing valiant man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>Of an invincible unconquer'd spirit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>This is the latest glory of thy praise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>That I, thy enemy, due thee withal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>For ere the glass, that now begins to run,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>Finish the process of his sandy hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>These eyes, that see thee now well coloured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>Shall see thee wither'd, bloody, pale and dead.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drum afar off</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>Hark! hark! the Dauphin's drum, a warning bell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>And mine shall ring thy dire departure out.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt General, & c</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>He fables not; I hear the enemy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>O, negligent and heedless discipline!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>How are we park'd and bounded in a pale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>A little herd of England's timorous deer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>If we be English deer, be then in blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>And make the cowards stand aloof at bay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>Sell every man his life as dear as mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>And they shall find dear deer of us, my friends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>God and Saint George, Talbot and England's right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Plains in Gascony.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter a Messenger that meets YORK. Enter YORK with trumpet and many Soldiers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>Are not the speedy scouts return'd again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>That dogg'd the mighty army of the Dauphin?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>They are return'd, my lord, and give it out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>That he is march'd to Bourdeaux with his power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>To fight with Talbot: as he march'd along,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>By your espials were discovered</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>Two mightier troops than that the Dauphin led,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>Which join'd with him and made their march for Bourdeaux.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>A plague upon that villain Somerset,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>That thus delays my promised supply</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>Of horsemen, that were levied for this siege!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>And I am lowted by a traitor villain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>And cannot help the noble chevalier:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>God comfort him in this necessity!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>If he miscarry, farewell wars in France.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Sir William LUCY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>Thou princely leader of our English strength,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>Never so needful on the earth of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>Who now is girdled with a waist of iron</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>And hemm'd about with grim destruction:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>To Bourdeaux, warlike duke! to Bourdeaux, York!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>Else, farewell Talbot, France, and England's honour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>O God, that Somerset, who in proud heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>Doth stop my cornets, were in Talbot's place!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>So should we save a valiant gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>By forfeiting a traitor and a coward.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>That thus we die, while remiss traitors sleep.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>O, send some succor to the distress'd lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>He dies, we lose; I break my warlike word;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>All 'long of this vile traitor Somerset.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>Then God take mercy on brave Talbot's soul;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>And on his son young John, who two hours since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>I met in travel toward his warlike father!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>This seven years did not Talbot see his son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>And now they meet where both their lives are done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>Alas, what joy shall noble Talbot have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>To bid his young son welcome to his grave?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>Away! vexation almost stops my breath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>That sunder'd friends greet in the hour of death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>Lucy, farewell; no more my fortune can,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>But curse the cause I cannot aid the man.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>Maine, Blois, Poictiers, and Tours, are won away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>'Long all of Somerset and his delay.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit, with his soldiers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>Thus, while the vulture of sedition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.50>The conquest of our scarce cold conqueror,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.51>That ever living man of memory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.52>Henry the Fifth: whiles they each other cross,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.53>Lives, honours, lands and all hurry to loss.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Other plains in Gascony.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SOMERSET, with his army; a Captain of TALBOT's with him</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.1>It is too late; I cannot send them now:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.2>This expedition was by York and Talbot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.3>Too rashly plotted: all our general force</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.4>Might with a sally of the very town</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.5>Be buckled with: the over-daring Talbot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.6>Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.7>By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.8>York set him on to fight and die in shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.9>That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.10>Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.11>Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Sir William LUCY</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.12>How now, Sir William! whither were you sent?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.13>Whither, my lord? from bought and sold Lord Talbot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.14>Who, ring'd about with bold adversity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.15>Cries out for noble York and Somerset,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.16>To beat assailing death from his weak legions:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.17>And whiles the honourable captain there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.18>Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.19>And, in advantage lingering, looks for rescue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.20>You, his false hopes, the trust of England's honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.21>Keep off aloof with worthless emulation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.22>Let not your private discord keep away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.23>The levied succors that should lend him aid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.24>While he, renowned noble gentleman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.25>Yields up his life unto a world of odds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.26>Orleans the Bastard, Charles, Burgundy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.27>Alencon, Reignier, compass him about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.28>And Talbot perisheth by your default.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.29>York set him on; York should have sent him aid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.30>And York as fast upon your grace exclaims;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.31>Swearing that you withhold his levied host,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.32>Collected for this expedition.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.33>York lies; he might have sent and had the horse;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.34>I owe him little duty, and less love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.35>And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.36>The fraud of England, not the force of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.37>Hath now entrapp'd the noble-minded Talbot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.38>Never to England shall he bear his life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.39>But dies, betray'd to fortune by your strife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.40>Come, go; I will dispatch the horsemen straight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.41>Within six hours they will be at his aid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.42>Too late comes rescue: he is ta'en or slain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.43>For fly he could not, if he would have fled;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.44>And fly would Talbot never, though he might.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.45>If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.46>His fame lives in the world, his shame in you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. The English camp near Bourdeaux.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter TALBOT and JOHN his son</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.1>O young John Talbot! I did send for thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.2>To tutor thee in stratagems of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.3>That Talbot's name might be in thee revived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.4>When sapless age and weak unable limbs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.5>Should bring thy father to his drooping chair.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.6>But, O malignant and ill-boding stars!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.7>Now thou art come unto a feast of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.8>A terrible and unavoided danger:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.9>Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest horse;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.10>And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.11>By sudden flight: come, dally not, be gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.12>Is my name Talbot? and am I your son?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.13>And shall I fly? O if you love my mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.14>Dishonour not her honourable name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.15>To make a bastard and a slave of me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.16>The world will say, he is not Talbot's blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.17>That basely fled when noble Talbot stood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.18>Fly, to revenge my death, if I be slain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.19>He that flies so will ne'er return again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.20>If we both stay, we both are sure to die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.21>Then let me stay; and, father, do you fly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.22>Your loss is great, so your regard should be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.23>My worth unknown, no loss is known in me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.24>Upon my death the French can little boast;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.25>In yours they will, in you all hopes are lost.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.26>Flight cannot stain the honour you have won;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.27>But mine it will, that no exploit have done:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.28>You fled for vantage, everyone will swear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.29>But, if I bow, they'll say it was for fear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.30>There is no hope that ever I will stay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.31>If the first hour I shrink and run away.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.32>Here on my knee I beg mortality,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.33>Rather than life preserved with infamy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.34>Shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.35>Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.36>Upon my blessing, I command thee go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.37>To fight I will, but not to fly the foe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.38>Part of thy father may be saved in thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.39>No part of him but will be shame in me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.40>Thou never hadst renown, nor canst not lose it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.41>Yes, your renowned name: shall flight abuse it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.42>Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.43>You cannot witness for me, being slain.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.44>If death be so apparent, then both fly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.45>And leave my followers here to fight and die?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.46>My age was never tainted with such shame.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.47>And shall my youth be guilty of such blame?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.48>No more can I be sever'd from your side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.49>Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.50>Stay, go, do what you will, the like do I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.51>For live I will not, if my father die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.52>Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.53>Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.54>Come, side by side together live and die.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.55>And soul with soul from France to heaven fly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. A field of battle.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum: excursions, wherein JOHN TALBOT is hemmed about, and TALBOT rescues him</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.1>Saint George and victory! fight, soldiers, fight.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.2>The regent hath with Talbot broke his word</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.3>And left us to the rage of France his sword.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.4>Where is John Talbot? Pause, and take thy breath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.5>I gave thee life and rescued thee from death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.6>O, twice my father, twice am I thy son!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.7>The life thou gavest me first was lost and done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.8>Till with thy warlike sword, despite of late,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.9>To my determined time thou gavest new date.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.10>When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.11>It warm'd thy father's heart with proud desire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.12>Of bold-faced victory. Then leaden age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.13>Quicken'd with youthful spleen and warlike rage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.14>Beat down Alencon, Orleans, Burgundy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.15>And from the pride of Gallia rescued thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.16>The ireful bastard Orleans, that drew blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.17>From thee, my boy, and had the maidenhood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.18>Of thy first fight, I soon encountered,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.19>And interchanging blows I quickly shed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.20>Some of his bastard blood; and in disgrace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.21>Bespoke him thus; 'Contaminated, base</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.22>And misbegotten blood I spill of thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.23>Mean and right poor, for that pure blood of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.24>Which thou didst force from Talbot, my brave boy:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.25>Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.26>Came in strong rescue. Speak, thy father's care,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.27>Art thou not weary, John? how dost thou fare?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.28>Wilt thou yet leave the battle, boy, and fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.29>Now thou art seal'd the son of chivalry?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.30>Fly, to revenge my death when I am dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.31>The help of one stands me in little stead.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.32>O, too much folly is it, well I wot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.33>To hazard all our lives in one small boat!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.34>If I to-day die not with Frenchmen's rage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.35>To-morrow I shall die with mickle age:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.36>By me they nothing gain an if I stay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.37>'Tis but the shortening of my life one day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.38>In thee thy mother dies, our household's name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.39>My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.40>All these and more we hazard by thy stay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.41>All these are saved if thou wilt fly away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.42>The sword of Orleans hath not made me smart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.43>These words of yours draw life-blood from my heart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.44>On that advantage, bought with such a shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.45>To save a paltry life and slay bright fame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.46>Before young Talbot from old Talbot fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.47>The coward horse that bears me fail and die!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.48>And like me to the peasant boys of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.49>To be shame's scorn and subject of mischance!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.50>Surely, by all the glory you have won,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.51>An if I fly, I am not Talbot's son:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.52>Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.53>If son to Talbot, die at Talbot's foot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.54>Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.55>Thou Icarus; thy life to me is sweet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.56>If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father's side;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.6.57>And, commendable proved, let's die in pride.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VII. Another part of the field.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum: excursions. Enter TALBOT led by a Servant</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.1>Where is my other life? mine own is gone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.2>O, where's young Talbot? where is valiant John?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.3>Triumphant death, smear'd with captivity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.4>Young Talbot's valour makes me smile at thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.5>When he perceived me shrink and on my knee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.6>His bloody sword he brandish'd over me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.7>And, like a hungry lion, did commence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.8>Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.9>But when my angry guardant stood alone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.10>Tendering my ruin and assail'd of none,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.11>Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.12>Suddenly made him from my side to start</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.13>Into the clustering battle of the French;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.14>And in that sea of blood my boy did drench</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.15>His over-mounting spirit, and there died,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.16>My Icarus, my blossom, in his pride.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.17>O, my dear lord, lo, where your son is borne!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Soldiers, with the body of JOHN TALBOT</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.18>Thou antic death, which laugh'st us here to scorn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.19>Anon, from thy insulting tyranny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.20>Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.21>Two Talbots, winged through the lither sky,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.22>In thy despite shall 'scape mortality.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.23>O, thou, whose wounds become hard-favour'd death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.24>Speak to thy father ere thou yield thy breath!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.25>Brave death by speaking, whether he will or no;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.26>Imagine him a Frenchman and thy foe.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.27>Poor boy! he smiles, methinks, as who should say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.28>Had death been French, then death had died to-day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.29>Come, come and lay him in his father's arms:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.30>My spirit can no longer bear these harms.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.31>Soldiers, adieu! I have what I would have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.32>Now my old arms are young John Talbot's grave.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, BURGUNDY, BASTARD OF ORLEANS, JOAN LA PUCELLE, and forces</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.33>Had York and Somerset brought rescue in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.34>We should have found a bloody day of this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.35>How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging-wood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.36>Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.37>Once I encounter'd him, and thus I said:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.38>'Thou maiden youth, be vanquish'd by a maid:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.39>But, with a proud majestical high scorn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.40>He answer'd thus: 'Young Talbot was not born</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.41>To be the pillage of a giglot wench:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.42>So, rushing in the bowels of the French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.43>He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.44>Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.45>See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.46>Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BASTARD OF ORLEANS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.47>Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.48>Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.49>O, no, forbear! for that which we have fled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.50>During the life, let us not wrong it dead.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Sir William LUCY, attended; Herald of the French preceding</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.51>Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.52>To know who hath obtained the glory of the day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.53>On what submissive message art thou sent?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.54>Submission, Dauphin! 'tis a mere French word;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.55>We English warriors wot not what it means.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.56>I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.57>And to survey the bodies of the dead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.58>For prisoners ask'st thou? hell our prison is.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.59>But tell me whom thou seek'st.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.60>But where's the great Alcides of the field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.61>Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.62>Created, for his rare success in arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.63>Great Earl of Washford, Waterford and Valence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.64>Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.65>Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.66>Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.67>The thrice-victorious Lord of Falconbridge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.68>Knight of the noble order of Saint George,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.69>Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.70>Great marshal to Henry the Sixth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.71>Of all his wars within the realm of France?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.72>Here is a silly stately style indeed!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.73>The Turk, that two and fifty kingdoms hath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.74>Writes not so tedious a style as this.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.75>Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.76>Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.77>Is Talbot slain, the Frenchmen's only scourge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.78>Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.79>O, were mine eyeballs into bullets turn'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.80>That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.81>O, that I could but call these dead to life!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.82>It were enough to fright the realm of France:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.83>Were but his picture left amongst you here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.84>It would amaze the proudest of you all.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.85>Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.86>And give them burial as beseems their worth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.87>I think this upstart is old Talbot's ghost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.88>He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.89>For God's sake let him have 'em; to keep them here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.90>They would but stink, and putrefy the air.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.91>Go, take their bodies hence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.92>I'll bear them hence; but from their ashes shall be rear'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.93>A phoenix that shall make all France afeard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.94>So we be rid of them, do with 'em what thou wilt.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.95>And now to Paris, in this conquering vein:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.7.96>All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. London. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, and EXETER</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>Have you perused the letters from the pope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>The emperor and the Earl of Armagnac?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>I have, my lord: and their intent is this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>They humbly sue unto your excellence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>To have a godly peace concluded of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>Between the realms of England and of France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>How doth your grace affect their motion?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>Well, my good lord; and as the only means</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>To stop effusion of our Christian blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>And 'stablish quietness on every side.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>It was both impious and unnatural</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>That such immanity and bloody strife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>Should reign among professors of one faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>Beside, my lord, the sooner to effect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>And surer bind this knot of amity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>A man of great authority in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>Proffers his only daughter to your grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>Marriage, uncle! alas, my years are young!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>And fitter is my study and my books</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>Yet call the ambassador; and, as you please,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>So let them have their answers every one:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>I shall be well content with any choice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>Tends to God's glory and my country's weal.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER in Cardinal's habit, a Legate and two Ambassadors</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>What! is my Lord of Winchester install'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>And call'd unto a cardinal's degree?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>Then I perceive that will be verified</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>'If once he come to be a cardinal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>My lords ambassadors, your several suits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>Have been consider'd and debated on.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>And therefore are we certainly resolved</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>To draw conditions of a friendly peace;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>Shall be transported presently to France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>And for the proffer of my lord your master,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>I have inform'd his highness so at large</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>As liking of the lady's virtuous gifts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>Her beauty and the value of her dower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>He doth intend she shall be England's queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>In argument and proof of which contract,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>And so, my lord protector, see them guarded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>And safely brought to Dover; where inshipp'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>Commit them to the fortune of the sea.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER and Legate</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>CARDINAL</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>Stay, my lord legate: you shall first receive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>The sum of money which I promised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>Should be deliver'd to his holiness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>For clothing me in these grave ornaments.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Legate</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>I will attend upon your lordship's leisure.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>CARDINAL</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>[Aside] Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>Or be inferior to the proudest peer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>That, neither in birth or for authority,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>The bishop will be overborne by thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>I'll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>Or sack this country with a mutiny.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. France. Plains in Anjou.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter CHARLES, BURGUNDY, ALENCON, BASTARD OF ORLEANS, REIGNIER, JOAN LA PUCELLE, and forces</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>These news, my lord, may cheer our drooping spirits:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>'Tis said the stout Parisians do revolt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>And turn again unto the warlike French.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>Then march to Paris, royal Charles of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>And keep not back your powers in dalliance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>Peace be amongst them, if they turn to us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>Else, ruin combat with their palaces!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Scout</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Scout</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>Success unto our valiant general,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>And happiness to his accomplices!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Scout</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>The English army, that divided was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>Into two parties, is now conjoined in one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>And means to give you battle presently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>Somewhat too sudden, sirs, the warning is;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>But we will presently provide for them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BURGUNDY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>Command the conquest, Charles, it shall be thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>Let Henry fret and all the world repine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>Then on, my lords; and France be fortunate!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Before Angiers.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Alarum. Excursions. Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>The regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>Now help, ye charming spells and periapts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>And ye choice spirits that admonish me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>And give me signs of future accidents.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Thunder</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>You speedy helpers, that are substitutes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>Under the lordly monarch of the north,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>Appear and aid me in this enterprise.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Fiends</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>This speedy and quick appearance argues proof</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>Of your accustom'd diligence to me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>Now, ye familiar spirits, that are cull'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>Out of the powerful regions under earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>Help me this once, that France may get the field.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They walk, and speak not</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>O, hold me not with silence over-long!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>Where I was wont to feed you with my blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>I'll lop a member off and give it you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>In earnest of further benefit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>So you do condescend to help me now.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They hang their heads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>No hope to have redress? My body shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>Pay recompense, if you will grant my suit.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They shake their heads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>Entreat you to your wonted furtherance?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>Then take my soul, my body, soul and all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>Before that England give the French the foil.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They depart</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24>See, they forsake me! Now the time is come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>And let her head fall into England's lap.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>My ancient incantations are too weak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>And hell too strong for me to buckle with:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>Now, France, thy glory droopeth to the dust.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Excursions. Re-enter JOAN LA PUCELLE fighting hand to hand with YORK. JOAN LA PUCELLE is taken. The French fly.</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>Damsel of France, I think I have you fast:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31>Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>And try if they can gain your liberty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>A goodly prize, fit for the devil's grace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>See, how the ugly wench doth bend her brows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.35>As if with Circe she would change my shape!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.36>Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.37>O, Charles the Dauphin is a proper man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.38>No shape but his can please your dainty eye.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.39>A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.40>And may ye both be suddenly surprised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.41>By bloody hands, in sleeping on your beds!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.42>Fell banning hag, enchantress, hold thy tongue!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.43>I prithee, give me leave to curse awhile.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.44>Curse, miscreant, when thou comest to the stake.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Alarum. Enter SUFFOLK with MARGARET in his hand</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.45>Be what thou wilt, thou art my prisoner.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Gazes on her</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.46>O fairest beauty, do not fear nor fly!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.47>For I will touch thee but with reverent hands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.48>I kiss these fingers for eternal peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.49>And lay them gently on thy tender side.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.50>Who art thou? say, that I may honour thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.51>Margaret my name, and daughter to a king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.52>The King of Naples, whosoe'er thou art.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.53>An earl I am, and Suffolk am I call'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.54>Be not offended, nature's miracle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.55>Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.56>So doth the swan her downy cygnets save,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.57>Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.58>Yet, if this servile usage once offend.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.59>Go, and be free again, as Suffolk's friend.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>She is going</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.60>O, stay! I have no power to let her pass;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.61>My hand would free her, but my heart says no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.62>As plays the sun upon the glassy streams,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.63>Twinkling another counterfeited beam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.64>So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.65>Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.66>I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.67>Fie, de la Pole! disable not thyself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.68>Hast not a tongue? is she not here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.69>Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.70>Ay, beauty's princely majesty is such,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.71>Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.72>Say, Earl of Suffolk--if thy name be so--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.73>What ransom must I pay before I pass?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.74>For I perceive I am thy prisoner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.75>How canst thou tell she will deny thy suit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.76>Before thou make a trial of her love?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.77>Why speak'st thou not? what ransom must I pay?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.78>She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.79>She is a woman, therefore to be won.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.80>Wilt thou accept of ransom? yea, or no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.81>Fond man, remember that thou hast a wife;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.82>Then how can Margaret be thy paramour?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.83>I were best to leave him, for he will not hear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.84>There all is marr'd; there lies a cooling card.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.85>He talks at random; sure, the man is mad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.86>And yet a dispensation may be had.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.87>And yet I would that you would answer me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.88>I'll win this Lady Margaret. For whom?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.89>Why, for my king: tush, that's a wooden thing!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.90>He talks of wood: it is some carpenter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.91>Yet so my fancy may be satisfied,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.92>And peace established between these realms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.93>But there remains a scruple in that too;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.94>For though her father be the King of Naples,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.95>Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet is he poor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.96>And our nobility will scorn the match.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.97>Hear ye, captain, are you not at leisure?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.98>It shall be so, disdain they ne'er so much.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.99>Henry is youthful and will quickly yield.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.100>Madam, I have a secret to reveal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.101>What though I be enthrall'd? he seems a knight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.102>And will not any way dishonour me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.103>Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.104>Perhaps I shall be rescued by the French;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.105>And then I need not crave his courtesy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.106>Sweet madam, give me a hearing in a cause--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.107>Tush, women have been captivate ere now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.108>Lady, wherefore talk you so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.109>I cry you mercy, 'tis but Quid for Quo.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.110>Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.111>Your bondage happy, to be made a queen?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.112>To be a queen in bondage is more vile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.113>Than is a slave in base servility;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.114>For princes should be free.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.115>And so shall you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.116>If happy England's royal king be free.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.117>Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.118>I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.119>To put a golden sceptre in thy hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.120>And set a precious crown upon thy head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.121>If thou wilt condescend to be my--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.122>What?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.123>His love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.124>I am unworthy to be Henry's wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.125>No, gentle madam; I unworthy am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.126>To woo so fair a dame to be his wife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.127>And have no portion in the choice myself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.128>How say you, madam, are ye so content?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.129>An if my father please, I am content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.130>Then call our captains and our colours forth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.131>And, madam, at your father's castle walls</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.132>We'll crave a parley, to confer with him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A parley sounded. Enter REIGNIER on the walls</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.133>See, Reignier, see, thy daughter prisoner!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.134>To whom?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.135> To me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.136> Suffolk, what remedy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.137>I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.138>Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>SU FFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.139>Yes, there is remedy enough, my lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.140>Consent, and for thy honour give consent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.141>Thy daughter shall be wedded to my king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.142>Whom I with pain have woo'd and won thereto;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.143>And this her easy-held imprisonment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.144>Hath gained thy daughter princely liberty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.145>Speaks Suffolk as he thinks?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.146>Fair Margaret knows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.147>That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.148>Upon thy princely warrant, I descend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.149>To give thee answer of thy just demand.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit from the walls</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.150>And here I will expect thy coming.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpets sound. Enter REIGNIER, below</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.151>Welcome, brave earl, into our territories:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.152>Command in Anjou what your honour pleases.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.153>Thanks, Reignier, happy for so sweet a child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.154>Fit to be made companion with a king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.155>What answer makes your grace unto my suit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.156>Since thou dost deign to woo her little worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.157>To be the princely bride of such a lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.158>Upon condition I may quietly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.159>Enjoy mine own, the country Maine and Anjou,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.160>Free from oppression or the stroke of war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.161>My daughter shall be Henry's, if he please.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.162>That is her ransom; I deliver her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.163>And those two counties I will undertake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.164>Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.165>And I again, in Henry's royal name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.166>As deputy unto that gracious king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.167>Give thee her hand, for sign of plighted faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.168>Reignier of France, I give thee kingly thanks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.169>Because this is in traffic of a king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.170>And yet, methinks, I could be well content</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.171>To be mine own attorney in this case.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.172>I'll over then to England with this news,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.173>And make this marriage to be solemnized.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.174>So farewell, Reignier: set this diamond safe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.175>In golden palaces, as it becomes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.176>I do embrace thee, as I would embrace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.177>The Christian prince, King Henry, were he here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.178>Farewell, my lord: good wishes, praise and prayers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.179>Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Going</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.180>Farewell, sweet madam: but hark you, Margaret;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.181>No princely commendations to my king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.182>Such commendations as becomes a maid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.183>A virgin and his servant, say to him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.184>Words sweetly placed and modestly directed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.185>But madam, I must trouble you again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.186>No loving token to his majesty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.187>Yes, my good lord, a pure unspotted heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.188>Never yet taint with love, I send the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.189>And this withal.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kisses her</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.190>That for thyself: I will not so presume</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.191>To send such peevish tokens to a king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt REIGNIER and MARGARET</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.192>O, wert thou for myself! But, Suffolk, stay;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.193>Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.194>There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.195>Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.196>Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.197>And natural graces that extinguish art;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.198>Repeat their semblance often on the seas,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.199>That, when thou comest to kneel at Henry's feet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.200>Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Camp of the YORK in Anjou.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter YORK, WARWICK, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.1>Bring forth that sorceress condemn'd to burn.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE, guarded, and a Shepherd</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.2>Ah, Joan, this kills thy father's heart outright!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.3>Have I sought every country far and near,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.4>And, now it is my chance to find thee out,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.5>Must I behold thy timeless cruel death?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.6>Ah, Joan, sweet daughter Joan, I'll die with thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.7>Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.8>I am descended of a gentler blood:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.9>Thou art no father nor no friend of mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.10>Out, out! My lords, an please you, 'tis not so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.11>I did beget her, all the parish knows:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.12>Her mother liveth yet, can testify</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.13>She was the first fruit of my bachelorship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.14>Graceless! wilt thou deny thy parentage?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.15>This argues what her kind of life hath been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.16>Wicked and vile; and so her death concludes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.17>Fie, Joan, that thou wilt be so obstacle!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.18>God knows thou art a collop of my flesh;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.19>And for thy sake have I shed many a tear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.20>Deny me not, I prithee, gentle Joan.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.21>Peasant, avaunt! You have suborn'd this man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.22>Of purpose to obscure my noble birth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Shepherd</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.23>'Tis true, I gave a noble to the priest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.24>The morn that I was wedded to her mother.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.25>Kneel down and take my blessing, good my girl.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.26>Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.27>Of thy nativity! I would the milk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.28>Thy mother gave thee when thou suck'dst her breast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.29>Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.30>Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs a-field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.31>I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.32>Dost thou deny thy father, cursed drab?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.33>O, burn her, burn her! hanging is too good.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.34>Take her away; for she hath lived too long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.35>To fill the world with vicious qualities.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.36>First, let me tell you whom you have condemn'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.37>Not me begotten of a shepherd swain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.38>But issued from the progeny of kings;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.39>Virtuous and holy; chosen from above,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.40>By inspiration of celestial grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.41>To work exceeding miracles on earth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.42>I never had to do with wicked spirits:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.43>But you, that are polluted with your lusts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.44>Stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.45>Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.46>Because you want the grace that others have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.47>You judge it straight a thing impossible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.48>To compass wonders but by help of devils.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.49>No, misconceived! Joan of Arc hath been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.50>A virgin from her tender infancy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.51>Chaste and immaculate in very thought;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.52>Whose maiden blood, thus rigorously effused,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.53>Will cry for vengeance at the gates of heaven.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.54>Ay, ay: away with her to execution!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.55>And hark ye, sirs; because she is a maid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.56>Spare for no faggots, let there be enow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.57>Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.58>That so her torture may be shortened.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.59>Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.60>Then, Joan, discover thine infirmity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.61>That warranteth by law to be thy privilege.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.62>I am with child, ye bloody homicides:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.63>Murder not then the fruit within my womb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.64>Although ye hale me to a violent death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.65>Now heaven forfend! the holy maid with child!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.66>The greatest miracle that e'er ye wrought:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.67>Is all your strict preciseness come to this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.68>She and the Dauphin have been juggling:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.69>I did imagine what would be her refuge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.70>Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.71>Especially since Charles must father it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.72>You are deceived; my child is none of his:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.73>It was Alencon that enjoy'd my love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.74>Alencon! that notorious Machiavel!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.75>It dies, an if it had a thousand lives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.76>O, give me leave, I have deluded you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.77>'Twas neither Charles nor yet the duke I named,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.78>But Reignier, king of Naples, that prevail'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.79>A married man! that's most intolerable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.80>Why, here's a girl! I think she knows not well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.81>There were so many, whom she may accuse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.82>It's sign she hath been liberal and free.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.83>And yet, forsooth, she is a virgin pure.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.84>Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.85>Use no entreaty, for it is in vain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>JOAN LA PUCELLE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.86>Then lead me hence; with whom I leave my curse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.87>May never glorious sun reflex his beams</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.88>Upon the country where you make abode;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.89>But darkness and the gloomy shade of death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.90>Environ you, till mischief and despair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.91>Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit, guarded</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.92>Break thou in pieces and consume to ashes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.93>Thou foul accursed minister of hell!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER, attended</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.94>CARDINAL</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.95>Lord regent, I do greet your excellence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.96>With letters of commission from the king.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.97>For know, my lords, the states of Christendom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.98>Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.99>Have earnestly implored a general peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.100>Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.101>And here at hand the Dauphin and his train</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.102>Approacheth, to confer about some matter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.103> Is all our travail turn'd to this effect?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.104>After the slaughter of so many peers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.105>So many captains, gentlemen and soldiers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.106>That in this quarrel have been overthrown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.107>And sold their bodies for their country's benefit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.108>Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.109>Have we not lost most part of all the towns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.110>By treason, falsehood and by treachery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.111>Our great progenitors had conquered?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.112>O Warwick, Warwick! I foresee with grief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.113>The utter loss of all the realm of France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.114>Be patient, York: if we conclude a peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.115>It shall be with such strict and severe covenants</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.116>As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, BASTARD OF ORLEANS, REIGNIER, and others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.117>Since, lords of England, it is thus agreed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.118>That peaceful truce shall be proclaim'd in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.119>We come to be informed by yourselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.120>What the conditions of that league must be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.121>Speak, Winchester; for boiling choler chokes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.122>The hollow passage of my poison'd voice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.123>By sight of these our baleful enemies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.124>CARDINAL</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>OF WINCHESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.125>Charles, and the rest, it is enacted thus:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.126>That, in regard King Henry gives consent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.127>Of mere compassion and of lenity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.128>To ease your country of distressful war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.129>And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.130>You shall become true liegemen to his crown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.131>And Charles, upon condition thou wilt swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.132>To pay him tribute, submit thyself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.133>Thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.134>And still enjoy thy regal dignity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.135>Must he be then as shadow of himself?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.136>Adorn his temples with a coronet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.137>And yet, in substance and authority,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.138>Retain but privilege of a private man?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.139>This proffer is absurd and reasonless.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.140>'Tis known already that I am possess'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.141>With more than half the Gallian territories,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.142>And therein reverenced for their lawful king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.143>Shall I, for lucre of the rest unvanquish'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.144>Detract so much from that prerogative,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.145>As to be call'd but viceroy of the whole?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.146>No, lord ambassador, I'll rather keep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.147>That which I have than, coveting for more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.148>Be cast from possibility of all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.149>Insulting Charles! hast thou by secret means</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.150>Used intercession to obtain a league,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.151>And, now the matter grows to compromise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.152>Stand'st thou aloof upon comparison?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.153>Either accept the title thou usurp'st,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.154>Of benefit proceeding from our king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.155>And not of any challenge of desert,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.156>Or we will plague thee with incessant wars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>REIGNIER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.157>My lord, you do not well in obstinacy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.158>To cavil in the course of this contract:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.159>If once it be neglected, ten to one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.160>We shall not find like opportunity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>ALENCON</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.161>To say the truth, it is your policy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.162>To save your subjects from such massacre</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.163>And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.164>By our proceeding in hostility;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.165>And therefore take this compact of a truce,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.166>Although you break it when your pleasure serves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>WARWICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.167>How say'st thou, Charles? shall our condition stand?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CHARLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.168>It shall;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.169>Only reserved, you claim no interest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.170>In any of our towns of garrison.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>YORK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.171>Then swear allegiance to his majesty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.172>As thou art knight, never to disobey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.173>Nor be rebellious to the crown of England,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.174>Thou, nor thy nobles, to the crown of England.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.175>So, now dismiss your army when ye please:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.176>Hang up your ensign, let your drums be still,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.177>For here we entertain a solemn peace.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. London. The palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SUFFOLK in conference with KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER and EXETER</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.1>Your wondrous rare description, noble earl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.2>Of beauteous Margaret hath astonish'd me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.3>Her virtues graced with external gifts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.4>Do breed love's settled passions in my heart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.5>And like as rigor of tempestuous gusts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.6>Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.7>So am I driven by breath of her renown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.8>Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.9>Where I may have fruition of her love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.10>Tush, my good lord, this superficial tale</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.11>Is but a preface of her worthy praise;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.12>The chief perfections of that lovely dame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.13>Had I sufficient skill to utter them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.14>Would make a volume of enticing lines,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.15>Able to ravish any dull conceit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.16>And, which is more, she is not so divine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.17>So full-replete with choice of all delights,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.18>But with as humble lowliness of mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.19>She is content to be at your command;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.20>Command, I mean, of virtuous chaste intents,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.21>To love and honour Henry as her lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.22>And otherwise will Henry ne'er presume.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.23>Therefore, my lord protector, give consent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.24>That Margaret may be England's royal queen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.25>So should I give consent to flatter sin.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.26>You know, my lord, your highness is betroth'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.27>Unto another lady of esteem:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.28>How shall we then dispense with that contract,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.29>And not deface your honour with reproach?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.30>As doth a ruler with unlawful oaths;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.31>Or one that, at a triumph having vow'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.32>To try his strength, forsaketh yet the lists</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.33>By reason of his adversary's odds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.34>A poor earl's daughter is unequal odds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.35>And therefore may be broke without offence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.36>Why, what, I pray, is Margaret more than that?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.37>Her father is no better than an earl,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.38>Although in glorious titles he excel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.39>Yes, lord, her father is a king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.40>The King of Naples and Jerusalem;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.41>And of such great authority in France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.42>As his alliance will confirm our peace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.43>And keep the Frenchmen in allegiance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.44>And so the Earl of Armagnac may do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.45>Because he is near kinsman unto Charles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>EXETER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.46>Beside, his wealth doth warrant a liberal dower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.47>Where Reignier sooner will receive than give.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.48>A dower, my lords! disgrace not so your king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.49>That he should be so abject, base and poor,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.50>To choose for wealth and not for perfect love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.51>Henry is able to enrich his queen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.52>And not seek a queen to make him rich:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.53>So worthless peasants bargain for their wives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.54>As market-men for oxen, sheep, or horse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.55>Marriage is a matter of more worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.56>Than to be dealt in by attorneyship;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.57>Not whom we will, but whom his grace affects,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.58>Must be companion of his nuptial bed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.59>And therefore, lords, since he affects her most,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.60>It most of all these reasons bindeth us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.61>In our opinions she should be preferr'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.62>For what is wedlock forced but a hell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.63>An age of discord and continual strife?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.64>Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.65>And is a pattern of celestial peace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.66>Whom should we match with Henry, being a king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.67>But Margaret, that is daughter to a king?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.68>Her peerless feature, joined with her birth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.69>Approves her fit for none but for a king:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.70>Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.71>More than in women commonly is seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.72>Will answer our hope in issue of a king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.73>For Henry, son unto a conqueror,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.74>Is likely to beget more conquerors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.75>If with a lady of so high resolve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.76>As is fair Margaret he be link'd in love.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.77>Then yield, my lords; and here conclude with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.78>That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING HENRY VI</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.79>Whether it be through force of your report,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.80>My noble Lord of Suffolk, or for that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.81>My tender youth was never yet attaint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.82>With any passion of inflaming love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.83>I cannot tell; but this I am assured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.84>I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.85>Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.86>As I am sick with working of my thoughts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.87>Take, therefore, shipping; post, my lord, to France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.88>Agree to any covenants, and procure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.89>That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.90>To cross the seas to England and be crown'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.91>King Henry's faithful and anointed queen:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.92>For your expenses and sufficient charge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.93>Among the people gather up a tenth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.94>Be gone, I say; for, till you do return,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.95>I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.96>And you, good uncle, banish all offence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.97>If you do censure me by what you were,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.98>Not what you are, I know it will excuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.99>This sudden execution of my will.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.100>And so, conduct me where, from company,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.101>I may revolve and ruminate my grief.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>GLOUCESTER</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.102>Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt GLOUCESTER and EXETER</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>SUFFOLK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.103>Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd; and thus he goes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.104>As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.105>With hope to find the like event in love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.106>But prosper better than the Trojan did.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.107>Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.5.108>But I will rule both her, the king and realm.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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