Page 239 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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Enter [la] Pucelle on the top, thrusting out a torch burning.
PUCELLE
Behold, this is the happy wedding-torch
That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen,
But burning fatal to the Talbonites.
BAST ARD
See, noble Charles, the beacon of our friend;
The burning torch in yonder turret stands. [30]
CHARLES
Now shine it like a comet of revenge,
A prophet to the fall of all our foes!
REIGNIER
Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends;
Enter and cry, ‘The dauphin!’ presently,
And then do execution on the watch. [35]
Alarum. [Exeunt.]
An alarum. [Enter] Talbot in an excursion.
T ALBOT
France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears,
If Talbot but survive thy treachery.
Pucelle, that witch, that damnèd sorceress,
Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares,
That hardly we escaped the pride of France. [40]
Exit.
An alarum; excursions. Bedford brought in sick in a chair. Enter Talbot
and Burgundy without; within, [la] Pucelle, Charles, Bastard, [Alençon,]
and Reignier on the walls.
PUCELLE
Good morrow, gallants; want ye corn for bread?
I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast
Before he’ll buy again at such a rate.
’Twas full of darnel: do you like the taste?
