Page 211 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

CHARLES

Is this thy cunning, thou deceitful dame? [50]
Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,
Make us partakers of a little gain,
That now our loss might be ten times so much?

PUCELLE

Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend?
At all times will you have my power alike? [55]
Sleeping or waking, must I still prevail,
Or will you blame and lay the fault on me? -
Improvident soldiers, had your watch been good,
This sudden mischief never could have fall’n.

CHARLES

Duke of Alençon, this was your default, [60]
That, being captain of the watch tonight,
Did look no better to that weighty charge.

ALENÇON

Had all your quarters been as safely kept
As that whereof I had the government,
We had not been thus shamefully surprised. [65]

BAST ARD

Mine was secure.

REIGNIER

And so was mine, my lord.

CHARLES

And for myself, most part of all this night,
Within her quarter and mine own precinct
I was employed in passing to and fro
About relieving of the sentinels. [70]
Then how or which way should they first break in?

PUCELLE

Question, my lords, no further of the case,
How or which way. ’Tis sure they found some place