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He answered thus: ‘Young Talbot was not born [40]
To be the pillage of a giglot wench’.
So, rushing in the bowels of the French,
He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.
BURGUNDY
Doubtless he would have made a noble knight.
See where he lies inhearsèd in the arms [45]
Of the most bloody nurser of his harms.
BAST ARD
Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder,
Whose life was England’s glory, Gallia’s wonder.
CHARLES
O no, forbear! For that which we have fled
During the life, let us not wrong it dead. [50]
Enter Lucy [attended, the French Herald preceding].
LUCY
Herald, conduct me to the dauphin’s tent,
To know who hath obtained the glory of the day.
CHARLES
On what submissive message art thou sent?
LUCY
Submission, dauphin? ’Tis a mere French word:
We English warriors wot not what it means. [55]
I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta’en
And to survey the bodies of the dead.
CHARLES
For prisoners ask’st thou? Hell our prison is.
But tell me whom thou seek’st?
LUCY
But where’s the great Alcides of the field, [60]
Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,
