103
CHARLES
Then come, a’ God’s name! I fear no woman.
104
PUCELLE
And while I live, I’ll ne’er fly from a man.
105
Here they fight,
and Joan
Pucelle overcomes.
CHARLES
Stay, stay thy hands! Thou art an Amazon,
106
And fightest with the sword of Deborah.
107
PUCELLE
Christ’s mother helps me; else I were too weak.
108
CHARLES
Whoe’er helps thee, ’tis thou that must help me.
109
Impatiently I burn with thy desire.
110
My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued.
111
Excellent Pucelle, if thy name be so,
112
Let me thy servant and not sovereign be.
113
’Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus.
114
PUCELLE
I must not yield to any rights of love,
115
For my profession’s sacred from above.
116
When I have chasèd all thy foes from hence,
117
Then will I think upon a recompense.
118
CHARLES
Meantime look gracious on thy prostrate thrall.
119
REIGNIER,
