O, where's young Talbot? where is valiant John?-- Enter Soldiers, bearing the body of John Talbot. Serv. O my dear lord! lo, where your son is borne ! Tal. Thou antic death, which laugh'st us here to scorn, Anon, from thy insulting tyranny, Coupled in bonds of perpetuity, Two Talbots, winged through the lither3 sky, O thou, whose wounds become hard-favour'd death, (1) Death stained and dishonoured with captivity. Alarums. Exeunt Soldiers and Servant, leaving the two bodies. Enter Charles, Alençon, Burgundy, Bastard, La Pucelle, and forces. Char. Had York and Somerset brought rescue in, We should have found a bloody day of this. Bast. How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging. wood,1 Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood! So, rushing in the bowels of the French, Bur. Doubtless he would have made a noble knight: See, where he lies inhersed in the arms Bast. Hew them to pieces, hack their bones Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder. Char. O, no; forbear: for that which we have fled During the life, let us not wrong it dead. Enter Sir William Lucy, attended; a French herald preceding. Lucy. Herald, Conduct me to the dauphin's tent; to know Char. On what submissive message art thou sent? We English warriors wot not what it means. Char. For prisoners ask'st thou? hell our prison is. (1) Raving mad. But tell me whom thou seek'st. Lucy. Where is the great Alcides of the field, Valiant lord Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury; Created, for his rare success in arms, Great earl of Washford, Waterford, and Valence; Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield, Lord Strange of Blackmere, lord Verdun of Alton, The thrice victorious lord of Falconbridge; Of all his wars within the realm of France? Him, that thou magnifiest with all these titles, Scourge, Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis? Puc. I think, this upstart is old Talbot's ghost, A phoenix that shall make all France afeard. Char. So we be rid of them, do with 'em what thou wilt. And now to Paris, in this conquering vein; ACT V. SCENE I-London. A room in the palace. The emperor, and the earl of Armagnac ? Glo. I have, my lord; and their intent is this,-They humbly sue unto your excellence, To have a godly peace concluded of, Between the realms of England and of France. K. Hen. How doth your grace affect their motion? Glo. Well, my good lord; and as the only means To stop effusion of our Christian blood, And 'stablish quietness on every side. K. Hen. Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought, It was both impious and unnatural, That such immanity and bloody strife Glo. Beside, my lord,-the sooner to effect, And surer bind, this knot of amity,- In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry. K. Hen. Marriage, uncle! alas! my years are young; And fitter is my study and my books, (1) Barbarity, savageness. So let them have their answers every one; Enter a Legate, and two ambassadors, with Winchester, in a cardinal's habit. Exe. What! is my lord of Winchester install'd, And call'd unto a cardinal's degree? Then, I perceive, that will be verified, Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy,— If once he come to be a cardinal, He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown. K. Hen. My lords ambassadors, your several suits Have been consider'd and debated on. Your purpose is both good and reasonable : Glo. And for the proffer of my lord your master,- Her beauty, and the value of her dower,- Bear her this jewel, [To the Amb.] pledge of my affection. And so, my lord protector, see them guarded, And safely brought to Dover; where, inshipp'd, Commit them to the fortune of the sea. [Exeunt King Henry and train; Gloster, Exeter, and Ambassadors. Win. Stay, my lord legate; you shall first receive The sum of money, which I promised Should be deliver'd to his holiness For clothing me in these grave ornaments. Leg. I will attend upon your lordship's leisure. Win. Now, Winchester will not submit, I trow, Or be inferior to the proudest peer. |