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That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them.

FIRST SOLDIER

Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city, [10]
And we be lords and rulers over Rouen;
Therefore we’ll knock.

Knock.

WAT CH

[within]
Qui là?

PUCELLE

Paysans, la pauvre gent de France:
Poor market folks that come to sell their corn. [15]

WAT CH

[opening the gate]
Enter; go in. The market bell is rung.

PUCELLE

Now, Rouen, I’ll shake thy bulwarks to the ground.

Exeunt.

Enter Charles, Bastard, Alençon [, Reignier and Forces].

CHARLES

Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem
And once again we’ll sleep secure in Rouen.

BAST ARD

Here entered Pucelle and her practisants; [20]
Now she is there, how will she specify
Here is the best and safest passage in?

REIGNIER

By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower,
Which, once discerned, shows that her meaning is:
No way to that, for weakness, which she entered. [25]