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

Bast.
Unready? I am 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.

Cha.
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 so 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 faln.

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 our quarters been as safely kept,
As that whereof I had the government,

We had not been thus shamefully surpriz'd.

Bast.
Mine was secure.

Reig.
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 lord, 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 soldiers, scatter'd and disperst,
And lay new platforms to endamage them. [Exeunt.

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