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| <H3>SCENE V. The English camp near Bourdeaux.</h3> |
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| <i>Enter TALBOT and JOHN his son</i> |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=1>O young John Talbot! I did send for thee</A><br> |
| <A NAME=2>To tutor thee in stratagems of war,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=3>That Talbot's name might be in thee revived</A><br> |
| <A NAME=4>When sapless age and weak unable limbs</A><br> |
| <A NAME=5>Should bring thy father to his drooping chair.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=6>But, O malignant and ill-boding stars!</A><br> |
| <A NAME=7>Now thou art come unto a feast of death,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=8>A terrible and unavoided danger:</A><br> |
| <A NAME=9>Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest horse;</A><br> |
| <A NAME=10>And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape</A><br> |
| <A NAME=11>By sudden flight: come, dally not, be gone.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=12>Is my name Talbot? and am I your son?</A><br> |
| <A NAME=13>And shall I fly? O if you love my mother,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=14>Dishonour not her honourable name,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=15>To make a bastard and a slave of me!</A><br> |
| <A NAME=16>The world will say, he is not Talbot's blood,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=17>That basely fled when noble Talbot stood.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=18>Fly, to revenge my death, if I be slain.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=19>He that flies so will ne'er return again.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=20>If we both stay, we both are sure to die.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=21>Then let me stay; and, father, do you fly:</A><br> |
| <A NAME=22>Your loss is great, so your regard should be;</A><br> |
| <A NAME=23>My worth unknown, no loss is known in me.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=24>Upon my death the French can little boast;</A><br> |
| <A NAME=25>In yours they will, in you all hopes are lost.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=26>Flight cannot stain the honour you have won;</A><br> |
| <A NAME=27>But mine it will, that no exploit have done:</A><br> |
| <A NAME=28>You fled for vantage, everyone will swear;</A><br> |
| <A NAME=29>But, if I bow, they'll say it was for fear.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=30>There is no hope that ever I will stay,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=31>If the first hour I shrink and run away.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=32>Here on my knee I beg mortality,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=33>Rather than life preserved with infamy.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=34>Shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb?</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=35>Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=36>Upon my blessing, I command thee go.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=37>To fight I will, but not to fly the foe.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=38>Part of thy father may be saved in thee.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=39>No part of him but will be shame in me.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=40>Thou never hadst renown, nor canst not lose it.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=41>Yes, your renowned name: shall flight abuse it?</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=42>Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=43>You cannot witness for me, being slain.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=44>If death be so apparent, then both fly.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=45>And leave my followers here to fight and die?</A><br> |
| <A NAME=46>My age was never tainted with such shame.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>JOHN TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=47>And shall my youth be guilty of such blame?</A><br> |
| <A NAME=48>No more can I be sever'd from your side,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=49>Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:</A><br> |
| <A NAME=50>Stay, go, do what you will, the like do I;</A><br> |
| <A NAME=51>For live I will not, if my father die.</A><br> |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>TALBOT</b></a> |
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| <A NAME=52>Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son,</A><br> |
| <A NAME=53>Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=54>Come, side by side together live and die.</A><br> |
| <A NAME=55>And soul with soul from France to heaven fly.</A><br> |
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