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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.