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But weakly guarded where the breach was made.
And now there rests no other shift but this: [75]
To gather our soldiers, scattered and dispersed,
And lay new platforms to endamage them.

[They move towards one door.]

Alarum. Enter an [English] Soldier crying, ‘A Talbot! A Talbot!’. [The
French] fly [across the stage] leaving their clothes behind [and exeunt].

SOLDIER

I’ll be so bold to take what they have left.
The cry of ‘Talbot’ serves me for a sword,
For I have loaden me with many spoils, [80]
Using no other weapon but his name.

Exit.

Scene II IT

Enter Talbot, Bedford, Burgundy, [a Captain, and others].

BEDFORD

The day begins to break and night is fled,
Whose pitchy mantle over-veiled the earth.
Here sound retreat and cease our hot pursuit.

Retreat [sounded].

T ALBOT

Bring forth the body of old Salisbury
And here advance it in the market-place, [5]
The middle cincture of this cursèd town.

[Dead march. Enter with the body of Salisbury.]
Now have I paid my vow unto his soul:
For every drop of blood was drawn from him
There hath at least five Frenchmen died tonight;
And that hereafter ages may behold [10]
What ruin happened in revenge of him,
Within their chiefest temple I’ll erect
A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interred;
Upon the which, that every one may read,
Shall be engraved the sack of Orléans, [15]