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The same.
[Enter, on the walls, JOAN LA PUCELLE, CHARLES, REIGNIER, ALENCON, and
Soldiers]
JOAN LA PUCELLE
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Advance | our wav|ing col|ors on | the walls,
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Rescued | is Orl|eans | from the | English.
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Thus Joan | la Pu/celle hath | performed | her
word.
CHARLES
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Divin|est creat|ure, As|traea's | daughter,
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How shall | I hon|or thee | for this | success?
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Thy prom|ises | are like | Adon|is' garden,
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That one | day bloomed, and fruit|ful were
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France, tri/umph in | thy glor|ious proph|etess,
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Recov|ered is | the town | of Orl|eans,
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More bles|sed hap | did nere | befall | our state.
REIGNIER
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Why ring | not out | the bells | aloud,|
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Throughout | the town? \\
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Dauphin com|mand the | citizens | make bonfires,
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And feast | and ban|quet in | the op|en streets,
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To cel|ebrate | the joy | that God | hath given
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ALENCON
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All France | will be | replete | with mirth | and
joy,
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When they | shall hear | how we | have played |
the men.
CHARLES
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'Tis Joan,| not we,| by whom | the day | is won:
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For which | I will | divide | my crown | with
her,
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And all | the priests | and fri|ars in | my realm,
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Shall in | proces|sion sing | her end|less
praise.
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A state|lier py|ramis | to her | I'll rear,
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Than Rhod|ope's | or Mem|phis' ev|er was.
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In mem|ory | of her,| when she | is dead,
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Her ash|es, in | an urn | more pre/cious
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Than || the rich-|jeweled | of Dar|ius,|
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Transport|ed, shall | be at / high fest|ivals
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Before | the kings | and queens | of France.|
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No long|er on | Saint^Den|is will | we cry,
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But Joan | la Pu/celle shall | be Fran|ce's saint.
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Come in,| and let | us ban|quet roy|ally,
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After | this gold|en day | of vict|ory.
[Flourish. Exeunt.]