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| <H3>SCENE II. Before Bourdeaux.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter TALBOT, with trump and drum</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Go to the gates of Bourdeaux, trumpeter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Summon their general unto the wall.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpet sounds. Enter General and others, aloft</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3>English John Talbot, captains, calls you forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Servant in arms to Harry King of England;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>And thus he would: Open your city gates;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Be humble to us; call my sovereign yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>And do him homage as obedient subjects;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>And I'll withdraw me and my bloody power:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>But, if you frown upon this proffer'd peace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>You tempt the fury of my three attendants,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>Who in a moment even with the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>If you forsake the offer of their love.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>General</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>Thou ominous and fearful owl of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Our nation's terror and their bloody scourge!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>The period of thy tyranny approacheth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>On us thou canst not enter but by death;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>For, I protest, we are well fortified</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>And strong enough to issue out and fight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>On either hand thee there are squadrons pitch'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>To wall thee from the liberty of flight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>And no way canst thou turn thee for redress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>But death doth front thee with apparent spoil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>And pale destruction meets thee in the face.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>To rive their dangerous artillery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Upon no Christian soul but English Talbot.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Lo, there thou stand'st, a breathing valiant man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Of an invincible unconquer'd spirit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>This is the latest glory of thy praise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>That I, thy enemy, due thee withal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>For ere the glass, that now begins to run,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Finish the process of his sandy hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>These eyes, that see thee now well coloured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Shall see thee wither'd, bloody, pale and dead.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drum afar off</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=39>Hark! hark! the Dauphin's drum, a warning bell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>And mine shall ring thy dire departure out.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt General, & c</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>TALBOT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=42>He fables not; I hear the enemy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>O, negligent and heedless discipline!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>How are we park'd and bounded in a pale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>A little herd of England's timorous deer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>If we be English deer, be then in blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>And make the cowards stand aloof at bay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Sell every man his life as dear as mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>And they shall find dear deer of us, my friends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>God and Saint George, Talbot and England's right,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight!</A><br> | |
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