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J. Payne Collier [1842–1844], The works of William Shakespeare. The text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions: with the various readings, notes, a life of the poet, and a history of the Early English stage. By J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. In eight volumes (Whittaker & Co. [etc.], London) [word count] [S10101].
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SCENE V. Another Part of the Field of Battle. Alarums. Enter Dauphin, Orleans, Bourbon, Constable, Ramburers, and Others.

Con.
O diable!

Orl.
O seigneur!—le jour est perdu! tout est perdu!

Dau.
Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sit mocking in our plumes.—O meschante fortune!
Do not run away.
[A short Alarum.

Con.
Why, all our ranks are broke.

Dau.
O perdurable shame!—let's stab ourselves.
Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?

Orl.
Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?

Bour.
Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
Let us die:—in!—Once more back again7 note;

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And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
Let him go hence, and, with his cap in hand,
Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door,
Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,
His fairest daughter is contaminate8 note

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Con.
Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!
Let us, in heaps, go offer up our lives9 note
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Orl.
We are enough, yet living in the field,
To smother up the English in our throngs,
If any order might be thought upon.

Bour.
The devil take order now. I'll to the throng:
Let life be short, else shame will be too long.
[Exeunt.
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J. Payne Collier [1842–1844], The works of William Shakespeare. The text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions: with the various readings, notes, a life of the poet, and a history of the Early English stage. By J. Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. In eight volumes (Whittaker & Co. [etc.], London) [word count] [S10101].
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