Alan.
How now, my lords? what all unready so?

Bast.
Unready? I, and glad we 'scap'd so well.

Reig.
'Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds;
Hearing alarums at our chamber-doors.

Alan.
Of all exploits, since first I follow'd arms,
Ne'er heard I of a warlike enterprize
More venturous, or desperate than this.

Bast.
I think, this Talbot is a fiend of hell.

Reig.
If not of hell, the heav'ns, sure, favour him.

Alan.
Here cometh Charles, I marvel how he sped. Enter Charles and Joan.

Bast.
Tut! holy Joan was his defensive guard.

Char.
Is this thy cunning, thou deceitful dame?
Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,
Make us partakers of a little gain;
That now our loss might be ten times as much?

Pucel.
Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend?
At all times will you have my pow'r alike?
Sleeping, or waking, must I still prevail?
Or will you blame and lay the fault on me?
Improvident soldiers, had your watch been good,
This sudden mischief never could have fal'n.

Char.
Duke of Alanson, this was your default,
That, being captain of the watch to night,
Did look no better to that weighty charge.

Alan.
Had all your quarters been as safely kept,
As that whereof I had the government,
We had not been thus shamefully surpriz'd.

Bast.
Mine was secure.

Reign.
And so was mine, my lord.

Char.
And for my self, most part of all this night,
Within her quarter, and mine own precinct,
I was employ'd in passing to and fro,
About relieving of the centinels.
Then how, or which way, should they first break in?

Pucel.
Question, my lords, no further of the case,
How, or which way; 'tis sure, they found some part
But weakly guarded, where the breach was made:
And now there rests no other shift but this,
To gather our soldiers, scatter'd and disperst,
And lay new platforms to endamage them. [Exeunt.

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