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| <H3>SCENE IV. Orleans.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter, on the walls, a Master Gunner and his Boy</i> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Master-Gunner Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is besieged,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>And how the English have the suburbs won.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>Boy</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>Father, I know; and oft have shot at them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Howe'er unfortunate I miss'd my aim.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Master-Gunner But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Chief master-gunner am I of this town;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Something I must do to procure me grace.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>The prince's espials have informed me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>How the English, in the suburbs close intrench'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>And thence discover how with most advantage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>They may vex us with shot, or with assault.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>To intercept this inconvenience,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>And even these three days have I watch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>If I could see them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>And thou shalt find me at the governor's.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>Boy</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=21>Father, I warrant you; take you no care;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=23>Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>How wert thou handled being prisoner?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Or by what means got'st thou to be released?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=27>The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Call'd the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>For him was I exchanged and ransomed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>But with a baser man of arms by far</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Once in contempt they would have barter'd me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Which I, disdaining, scorn'd; and craved death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>Rather than I would be so vile esteem'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>In fine, redeem'd I was as I desired.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>But, O! the treacherous Fastolfe wounds my heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Whom with my bare fists I would execute,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>If I now had him brought into my power.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=38>Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertain'd.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=39>With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>In open market-place produced they me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>To be a public spectacle to all:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Here, said they, is the terror of the French,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>The scarecrow that affrights our children so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Then broke I from the officers that led me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>And with my nails digg'd stones out of the ground,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>To hurl at the beholders of my shame:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>My grisly countenance made others fly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>None durst come near for fear of sudden death.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>In iron walls they deem'd me not secure;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>That they supposed I could rend bars of steel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>And spurn in pieces posts of adamant:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>That walked about me every minute-while;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>And if I did but stir out of my bed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Ready they were to shoot me to the heart.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Boy with a linstock</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=57>I grieve to hear what torments you endured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>But we will be revenged sufficiently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>Now it is supper-time in Orleans:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>Here, through this grate, I count each one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>and view the Frenchmen how they fortify:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>Let us look in; the sight will much delight thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>Sir Thomas Gargrave, and Sir William Glansdale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>Let me have your express opinions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>Where is best place to make our battery next.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>GARGRAVE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=66>I think, at the north gate; for there stand lords.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>GLANSDALE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=67>And I, here, at the bulwark of the bridge.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=68>For aught I see, this city must be famish'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>Or with light skirmishes enfeebled.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here they shoot. SALISBURY and GARGRAVE fall</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>SALISBURY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=70>O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched sinners!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>GARGRAVE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=71>O Lord, have mercy on me, woful man!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=72>What chance is this that suddenly hath cross'd us?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Speak, Salisbury; at least, if thou canst speak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>How farest thou, mirror of all martial men?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>One of thy eyes and thy cheek's side struck off!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>Accursed tower! accursed fatal hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>That hath contrived this woful tragedy!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>Henry the Fifth he first train'd to the wars;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>Yet livest thou, Salisbury? though thy speech doth fail,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>One eye thou hast, to look to heaven for grace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>Bear hence his body; I will help to bury it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>Speak unto Talbot; nay, look up to him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>Thou shalt not die whiles--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=92>He beckons with his hand and smiles on me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=93>As who should say 'When I am dead and gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>Remember to avenge me on the French.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>Plantagenet, I will; and like thee, Nero,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=98>What stir is this? what tumult's in the heavens?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>Whence cometh this alarum and the noise?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=100>My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle join'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>A holy prophetess new risen up,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>Is come with a great power to raise the siege.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here SALISBURY lifteth himself up and groans</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=104>Hear, hear how dying Salisbury doth groan!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>It irks his heart he cannot be revenged.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>Pucelle or puzzel, dolphin or dogfish,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>And make a quagmire of your mingled brains.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>Convey me Salisbury into his tent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum. Exeunt</i></p> | |
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