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Before Orleans.
[Enter a Sergeant of a band with two Sentinels]
SERGEANT
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Sirs, take your | places,| and be | vigilant:
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If an|y noise | or sol|dier you | perceive
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Near to | the walls,| by some | appar|ent sign
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Let us | have know/ledge at | the court | of
guard.
FIRST SENTINEL
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Sergeant | you shall.| Thus are | poor serv/itors
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(When oth|ers sleep | upon | their qui|et beds)
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Constrained | to watch | in dark|ness, rain,| and
cold.
[Enter TALBOT, BEDFORD, BURGUNDY, and Forces, with scaling-ladders, their
drums beating a dead march]
TALBOT
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Lord Reg/ent, and | redoubt|ed Burg|undy,
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By whose | approach | the reg|ions of | Artois,
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Wallon,| and Pic|ardy | are friends | to us:
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This hap|py night,| the French|men are | secure,
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Having | all day caroused | and ban|queted,
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Embrace | we then | this op|portun|ity,
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As fit|ting best | to quit|tance their | deceit,
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Contrived | by art,| and bale|ful sor|cery.
BEDFORD
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Coward | of France,| how much | he wrongs | his
fame,
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Despair|ing of his // own arm's fort|itude,
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To join | with witch|es, and | the help | of hell.
BURGUNDY
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Traitors | have nev|er oth|er comp|any.
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But what's | that Pu/celle whom | they term | so pure?
TALBOT
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A maid,| they say.
BEDFORD
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A maid?| and be | so mar||tial?
BURGUNDY
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Pray God | she prove | not mas|culine / ere long:
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If und|erneath | the stand|ard of | the French
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She car|ry arm|or, as | she hath | begun.
TALBOT
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Well, let | them prac|tice and | converse | with
spirits.
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God is | our fort|ress, in | whose con|quering
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Let us re|solve to | scale their | flinty |
bulwarks*.
BEDFORD
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Ascend | brave Tal/bot, we | will fol|low thee.
TALBOT
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Not all | togeth|er: bet|ter far | I guess,
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That we | do make | our ent|rance seve|ral ways:
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That if | it chance | the one | of us | do* fail,
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The oth|er yet | may rise | against | their
force.
BEDFORD
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Agreed;| I'll to yond corn|er.
BURGUNDY
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And I | to this.
TALBOT
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And here | will Tal|bot mount,| or make | his
grave.
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Now Sal/isbury,| for thee,| and for | the right
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Of Eng|lish Hen|ry, shall | this night | appear
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How much | in du|ty, I | am bound | to both.
SENTINELS
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Arm, arm, the en|emy | doth^make | assault.
[Cry: 'St. George,' 'A Talbot.' The French leap over the walls in
their shirts. Enter, several ways, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON, and
REIGNIER, half ready, and half unready]
ALENCON
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How now | my lords? | What all | unread|y so?
BASTARD OF ORLEANS
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Unread|y? Aye,| and glad | we escaped | so well.
REIGNIER
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Twas* time |(I trow)| to wake | and leave | our
beds,
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Hearing | alar|ums at | our chamb|er-doors.
ALENCON
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Of all exploits |since^first | I fol|lowed arms,
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Nere heard / I of a | warlike ent|erprise
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More* vent|urous,| or des|perate | than this.
BASTARD OF ORLEANS
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I think | this Tal|bot be | a fiend | of hell.
REIGNIER
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If not | of hell,| the heav|ens sure | favor him.
ALENCON
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Here com|eth Charles,| I marv|el how | he sped?
BASTARD OF ORLEANS
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Tut, ho|ly Joan | was his | defens|ive guard.
[Enter CHARLES and JOAN LA PUCELLE]
CHARLES
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Is this | thy cun|ning, thou | deceit|ful dame?
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Didst^thou | at first,| to flat|ter us | withal,
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Make^us | partak|ers of | a lit|tle gain,
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That now | our loss | might be | ten^times | so
much?
JOAN LA PUCELLE
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Wherefore | is Charles | impa|tient with | his
friend?
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At all times will | you have | my power |
alike?
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Sleeping | or wak|ing, must | I still | prevail,
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Or will | you blame | and lay | the fault | on
me?
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Improv|ident sol|diers, had | your watch | been good,
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This sud|den mis|chief nev|er could | have
fallen.
CHARLES
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Duke of | Alen|con, this | was your | default,
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That be|ing cap|tain of | the watch | tonight,
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Did look | no bet|ter to | that weight|y charge.
ALENCON
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Had all | your quart|ers been | as safe|ly kept,
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As that | whereof | I had | the gov|ernment,
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We had | not been | thus shame|fully | surprised.
BASTARD OF ORLEANS
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Mine was | secure.
REIGNIER
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And so | was mine,| my lord.
CHARLES
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And for | myself,| most part of all | this
night
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Within | her quart|er, and mine^//own precinct
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I was | employed | in pas|sing to | and fro,
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About | reliev|ing of | the sent|inels.
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Then how,| or which | way, should | they first |
break in?
JOAN LA PUCELLE
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Question |(my lords)| no furth|er of | the case,
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How or which way;| 'tis sure | they found | some^place,
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But weak|ly guard|ed, where | the breach | was
made:
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And now | there^rests | no^oth|er shift | but
this,
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To gath|er our sol|diers, scat|tered and |
dispersed,
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And lay | new plat|forms to | endam|age them.
[Alarum. Enter a Soldier, crying 'A Talbot! a Talbot!' They fly, leaving
their clothes behind]
SOLDIER
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I'll be | so bold | to take | what they | have
left:
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The cry | of Tal|bot serves | me for | a sword,
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For I | have load|en me | with ma|ny spoils,
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Using | no^oth|er weap|on but | his name.
[Exit]