Shall pitch a field, when we are dead. Glo. [Skirmish again. Stay, stay, I say! And, if you love me, as you say you do, Let me persuade you to forbear a while. K. Hen. O, how this discord doth afflict my Can you, my lord of Winchester, behold Except you mean, with obstinate repulse, War. Behold, my lord of Winchester, the duke preach, That malice was a great and grievous sin: you War. Sweet king!-the bishop hath a kindly gird. 9 hath a kindly gird.] i. e. feels an emotion of kind re morse. For shame, my lord of Winchester! relent; Glo. Ay; but, I fear me, with a hollow heart. Win. So help me God, as I intend it not! [Aside. K. Hen. O loving uncle, kind duke of Gloster, How joyful am I made by this contract!Away, my masters! trouble us no more; But join in friendship, as your lords have done. 1 Serv. Content; I'll to the surgeon's. 2 Serv. Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet Glo. Well urg'd, my lord of Warwick ;-for, sweet prince, An if your grace mark every circumstance, You have great reason to do Richard right: Especially, for those occasions At Eltham-place I told your majesty. K. Hen. And those occasions, uncle, were of force: Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is, War. Let Richard be restored to his blood; VOL, V. But all the whole inheritance I give, And, in reguerdon of that duty done, may fall! Som. Perish, base prince, ignoble duke of York! [Aside. Glo. Now will it best avail your majesty, To cross the seas, and to be crown'd in France: Amongst his subjects, and his loyal friends; K. Hen. When Gloster says the word, king Henry For friendly counsel cuts off many foes. Glo. Your ships already are in readiness. [Exeunt all but EXETER. Ere. Ay, we may march in England, or in France, Not seeing what is likely to ensue : This late dissention, grown betwixt the peers, 1 reguerdon - Recompence, return. So will this base and envious discord breed. Which, in the time of Henry, nam'd the fifth, SCENE II. France. Before Rouen. [Erit Enter LA PUCELLE disguised, and Soldiers dressed city, And we be lords and rulers over Rouen; Therefore we'll knock. Guard. [Within.] Qui est là? [Knocks Puc. Paisans, pauvres gens de France: Poor market-folks, that come to sell their corn. Guard. Enter, go in; the market-bell is rung. [Opens the Gates. Puc. Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks to the ground. [PUCELLE, &c. enter the City. Enter CHARLES, Bastard of Orleans, ALENÇON, and Forces. Char. Saint Dennis bless this happy stratagem! And once again we'll sleep secure in Roüen. Bast. Here enter'd Pucelle, and her practisants;2 Now she is there, how will she specify Where is the best and safest passage in? Alen. By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower; Which, once discern'd, shows, that her meaning is, 3 No way to that, for weakness, which she enter'd. Enter LA PUCELLE on a Battlement: holding out a Torch burning. Puc. Behold, this is the happy wedding torch, That joineth Roüen unto her countrymen; But burning fatal to the Talbotites. Bast. See, noble Charles! the beacon of our The burning torch in yonder turret stands. A prophet to the fall of all our foes! Alen. Defer no time, Delays have dangerous Enter, and cry-The Dauphin!-presently, 2 Here enter'd Pucelle, and her practisants;] Practice, in the language of that time, was treachery, and perhaps in the softer sense stratagem. Practisants are therefore confederates in stratagems. JOHNSON. 3 No way to that,] That is, no way equal to that, no way so fit as that. JOHNSON. |