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GLOUCEST ER

 Mayor, farewell. Thou dost but what thou mayst. [85]

WINCHEST ER

 Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head,
 For I intend to have it ere long.

    Exeunt [severally, Gloucester and Winchester with their Servingmen].

     MAY OR

     See the coast cleared and then we will depart. -
[Aside]

     Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!
     I myself fight not once in forty year. [90]

                                                                 Exeunt.

                                Scene IV IT

                Enter the Master Gunner of Orléans and his Boy.

GUNNER

 Sirrah, thou know’st how Orléans is besieged
 And how the English have the suburbs won.

BOY

 Father, I know, and oft have shot at them,
 Howe’er unfortunate I missed my aim.

GUNNER

 But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me: [5]
 Chief master gunner am I of this town;
 Something I must do to procure me grace.
 The prince’s espials have informèd me
 How the English, in the suburbs close entrenched,
 Went, through a secret grate of iron bars [10]
 In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,
 And thence discover how with most advantage
 They may vex us with shot or with assault.
 To intercept this inconvenience,
 A piece of ordnance ’gainst it I have placed [15]
 And even these three days watched if I could see them.
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