Henry vi part 1, p.17
Henry VI, Part 1,
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My spirit can no longer bear these harms.
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Soldiers, adieu! I have what I would have,
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Now my old arms are young John Talbot’s grave.
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Dies.
Enter Charles, Alanson, Burgundy, Bastard,
and Pucelle,
CHARLES
Had York and Somerset brought rescue in,
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We should have found a bloody day of this.
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BASTARD
How the young whelp of Talbot’s, raging wood,
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Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen’s blood!
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PUCELLE
Once I encountered him, and thus I said:
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“Thou maiden youth, be vanquished by a maid.”
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But with a proud majestical high scorn
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He answered thus: “Young Talbot was not born
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To be the pillage of a giglot wench.”
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So, rushing in the bowels of the French,
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He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.
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BURGUNDY
Doubtless he would have made a noble knight.
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See where he lies inhearsèd in the arms
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Of the most bloody nurser of his harms.
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BASTARD
Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder,
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Whose life was England’s glory, Gallia’s wonder.
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CHARLES
O, no, forbear! For that which we have fled
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During the life, let us not wrong it dead.
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Enter Lucy
LUCY
Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin’s tent,
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To know who hath obtained the glory of the day.
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CHARLES
On what submissive message art thou sent?
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LUCY
Submission, dauphin? ’Tis a mere French word.
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We English warriors wot not what it means.
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I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta’en,
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And to survey the bodies of the dead.
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CHARLES
For prisoners askst thou? Hell our prison is.
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But tell me whom thou seek’st.
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LUCY
But where’s the great Alcides of the field,
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Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,
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Created for his rare success in arms
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Great Earl of Washford, Waterford, and Valence,
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Lord Talbot of Goodrich and Urchinfield,
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Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdon of Alton,
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Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of
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Sheffield,
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The thrice victorious Lord of Falconbridge,
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Knight of the noble Order of Saint George,
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Worthy Saint Michael, and the Golden Fleece,
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Great Marshal to Henry the Sixth
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Of all his wars within the realm of France?
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PUCELLE
Here’s a silly stately style indeed.
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The Turk, that two-and-fifty kingdoms hath,
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Writes not so tedious a style as this.
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Him that thou magnifi’st with all these titles
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Stinking and flyblown lies here at our feet.
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LUCY
Is Talbot slain, the Frenchmen’s only scourge,
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Your kingdom’s terror and black Nemesis?
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O, were mine eyeballs into bullets turned
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That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!
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O, that I could but call these dead to life,
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It were enough to fright the realm of France.
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Were but his picture left amongst you here,
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It would amaze the proudest of you all.
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Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence
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And give them burial as beseems their worth.
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PUCELLE
I think this upstart is old Talbot’s ghost,
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He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit.
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For God’s sake, let him have him. To keep them here,
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They would but stink and putrefy the air.
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CHARLES
Go, take their bodies hence.
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LUCY I’ll bear them hence.
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But from their ashes shall be reared
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A phoenix that shall make all France afeard.
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CHARLES
So we be rid of them, do with him what thou wilt.
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And now to Paris in this conquering vein.
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All will be ours, now bloody Talbot’s slain.
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HENRY VI
Part 1
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ACT 5
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Sennet. Enter King, Gloucester, and Exeter,
KING HENRY,
Have you perused the letters from the Pope,
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The Emperor, and the Earl of Armagnac?
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GLOUCESTER
I have, my lord, and their intent is this:
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They humbly sue unto your Excellence
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To have a godly peace concluded of
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Between the realms of England and of France.
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KING HENRY
How doth your Grace affect their motion?
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GLOUCESTER
Well, my good lord, and as the only means
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To stop effusion of our Christian blood
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And stablish quietness on every side.
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KING HENRY
Ay, marry, uncle, for I always thought
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It was both impious and unnatural
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That such immanity and bloody strife
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Should reign among professors of one faith.
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GLOUCESTER
Besides, my lord, the sooner to effect
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And surer bind this knot of amity,
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The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,
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A man of great authority in France,
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Proffers his only daughter to your Grace
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In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.
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KING HENRY
Marriage, uncle? Alas, my years are young;
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And fitter is my study and my books
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Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.
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Yet call th’ Ambassadors and, as you please,
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So let them have their answers every one.
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I shall be well content with any choice
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Tends to God’s glory and my country’s weal.
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Enter Winchester,
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EXETER,
