Char.
Had York and Somerset brought rescue in,
We should have found a bloody day of this.

Bast.
How the young ^{8 note}

Did flesh his puny sword ^{9 note}in Frenchmen's blood!

Pucel.
Once I encounter'd him, and thus I said,
Thou maiden youth, be vanquish'd by a maid:
But—with a proud, majestical, high scorn—
He answer'd thus; Young Talbot was not born—
To be the pillage ^{1 note}

Bur.
Doubtless, he would have made a noble knight:
See, where he lies inhersed in the arms
Of the most bloody nurser of his harms.

Bast.
Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder;
Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder.

Char.
Oh, no; forbear: for that which we have fled
During the life, let us not wrong it dead.

Enter Sir William Lucy.

Lucy.
^{3 note}

Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent; to know
Who hath obtain'd the glory of the day.

Char.
On what submissive message art thou sent?

Lucy.
Submission, Dauphin? 'tis a meer French word;
We English warriors wot not what it means.
I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en,
And to survey the bodies of the dead.

Char.
For prisoners ask'st thou? hell our prison is.
But tell me whom thou seek'st.

Lucy.
Where is the great Alcides of the field,
Valiant lord Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury?
Created, for his rare success in arms,
Great earl of Washford, Waterford, and Valence;
Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield,
Lord Strange of Blackmere, lord Verdun of Alton,
Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, lord Furnival of Sheffield,
The thrice victorious lord of Falconbridge;
Knight of the noble order of saint George,
Worthy saint Michael, and the golden fleece;
Great mareshal to Henry the sixth,
Of all his wars within the realm of France?

Pucel.
Here is a silly stately stile, indeed!
The Turk^{4 note}, that two and fifty kingdoms hath,
Writes not so tedious a stile as this.—

Him, that thou magnify'st with all these titles,
Stinking, and fly-blown, lies here at our feet.

Lucy.
Is Talbot slain; the Frenchmen's only scourge,
Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis?
Oh, were mine eye-balls into bullets turn'd,
That I, in rage, might shoot them at your faces!
Oh, that I could but call these dead to life!
It were enough to fright the realm of France:
Were but his picture left among you here,
It would amaze the proudest of you all.
Give me their bodies; that I may bear them hence,
And give them burial as beseems their worth.

Pucel.
I think, this upstart is old Talbot's ghost,
He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit.
For God's sake, let him have 'em; to keep them here,
They would but stink, and putrefy the air.

Char.
Go, take their bodies hence.

Lucy.
I'll bear
Them hence: but from their ashes shall be rear'd
A phœnix, that shall make all France afeard.

Char.
So we be rid of them, do with him what thou wilt.
And now to Paris, in this conquering vein;
All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain. [Exeunt.

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