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Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.
If thou spy’st any, run and bring me word,
And thou shalt find me at the governor’s.

Exit.

BOY

Father, I warrant you, take you no care; [20]
I’ll never trouble you if I may spy them.

Exit.

Enter Salisbury and Talbot on the turrets, with [Sir William Glansdale,
Sir Thomas Gargrave and] others.

SALISBURY

Talbot, my life, my joy, again returned!
How wert thou handled, being prisoner,
Or by what means got’st thou to be released?
Discourse, I prithee, on this turret’s top. [25]

T ALBOT

The Earl of Bedford had a prisoner,
Called the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles;
For him was I exchanged and ransomèd.
But with a baser man-of-arms by far
Once in contempt they would have bartered me; [30]
Which I disdaining, scorned, and cravèd death
Rather than I would be so pilled-esteemed;
In fine, redeemed I was as I desired.
But O, the treacherous Fastolf wounds my heart,
Whom with my bare fists I would execute [35]
If I now him had brought into my power.

SALISBURY

Yet tell’st thou not how thou wert entertained.

T ALBOT

With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts;
In open market-place produced they me
To be a public spectacle to all. [40]
‘Here’, said they, ‘is the terror of the French,