Tal. Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete, Thou Icarus. Thy life to me is sweet: If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father's side, And, commendable prov'd, let's die in pride. SCENE VII. Another Part of the Same. [Exeunt. Alarums: Excursions. Enter TALBOT wounded, supported by a Servant. Tal. Where is my other life? — mine own is gone: Enter Soldiers, bearing the Body of JOHN TAlbot. Coupled in bonds of perpetuity, Two Talbots, winged through the lither sky, In thy despite shall 'scape mortality. O! thou whose wounds become hard-favour'd death, Speak to thy father, ere thou yield thy breath: Brave death by speaking, whether he will or no; Poor boy! he smiles, methinks; as who should say. Now my old arms are young John Talbot's grave. [Dies. Alarums. Exeunt Soldiers and Servant, leaving the two Bodies. Enter CHARLES, ALENÇON, BURGUNDY, Bastard, LA PU CELLE, and Forces. Char. Had York and Somerset brought rescue in, We should have found a bloody day of this. Bast. How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging wood, Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood! Puc. 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 answered thus: "Young Talbot was not born So, rushing in the bowels of the French, He left me proudly, as unworthy fight. 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. O, no! forbear; for that which we have fled During the life, let us not wrong it dead. Enter Sir WILLIAM LUCY, attended; a French Herald preceding. Lucy. 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! 't is a mere 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. But where 's 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 Strange of Blackmere, lord Verdun of Alton, Of all his wars within the realm of France? Puc. Here is a silly stately style indeed! Him, that thou magnifiest with all these titles, Lucy. Is Talbot slain? the Frenchmen's only scourge, O! were mine eye-balls into bullets turn'd, That I in rage might shoot them at your faces. Puc. I think, this upstart is old Talbot's ghost, Char. Go, take their bodies hence. But from their ashes shall be rear'd A phoenix that shall make all France afeard. I'll bear them hence: Char. So we be rid of them, do with 'em what thou wilt. And now to Paris, in this conquering vein : All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain. ACT V. SCENE I. London. A Room in the Palace. Enter King HENRY, GLOSTER, and EXETER. K. Hen. Have you perus'd the letters from the pope, The emperor, and the earl of Armagnac? Glo. I have, my lord; and their intent is this: They humbly sue unto your excellence, To have a godly peace concluded of Between the realms of England and of France. K. Hen. How doth your grace affect their motion? Glo. Well, my good lord; and as the only means To stop effusion of our Christian blood, And 'stablish quietness on every side. K. Hen. Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought, It was both impious and unnatural, That such immanity and bloody strife Should reign among professors of one faith. Glo. Beside, my lord, the sooner to effect, And surer bind, this knot of amity, The earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles, Proffers his only daughter to your grace In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry, [Exeunt. K. Hen. Marriage, uncle? alas! my years are young, And fitter is my study and my books, Than wanton dalliance with a paramour. Enter a Legate, and two Ambassadors, with Winchester, as a Cardinal. Exe. What! is my lord of Winchester install'd, And call'd unto a cardinal's degree? Then, I perceive that will be verified, Henry the fifth did sometime prophesy, "If once he come to be a cardinal, He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown." K. Hen. My lords ambassadors, your several suits Your purpose is both good and reasonable; Glo. And for the proffer of my lord, your master, K. Hen. In argument and proof of which contract, [Exeunt King HENRY and Train; Gloster, Exeter, Win. Stay, my lord legate: you shall first receive The sum of money, which I promised Should be deliver'd to his holiness For clothing me in these grave ornaments. Leg. I will attend upon your lordship's leisure. Or be inferior to the proudest peer. Humphrey of Gloster, thou shalt well perceive, The bishop will be overborne by thee: |