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Exit [with his Soldiers].
LUCY
Thus while the vulture of sedition
Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders,
Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss
The conquest of our scarce-cold conqueror, [50]
That ever-living man of memory,
Henry the Fifth. Whiles they each other cross,
Lives, honours, lauds, and all hurry to loss.
[Exit.]
Scene IV IT
Enter Somerset with his Army [, a Captain of Talbot’s with him].
SOMERSET
It is too late, I cannot send them now.
This expedition was by York and Talbot
Too rashly plotted. All our general force
Might with a sally of the very town
Be buckled with: the over-daring Talbot [5]
Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour
By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure.
York set him on to fight and die in shame
That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name.
[Enter Sir William Lucy.]
CAPT AIN
Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me [10]
Set from our o’ermatched forces forth for aid.
SOMERSET
How now, Sir William, whither were you sent?
LUCY
Whither, my lord? From bought and sold Lord Talbot,
Who, ringed about with bold adversity,
Cries out for noble York and Somerset [15]
