Glos. Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst. Win. Abominable Gloster! guard thy head; For I intend to have it, ere long. [Exeunt. Mayor. See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart. Enter, on the walls, the MASTER-gunner and his son. M. Gun. Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is be sieged, And how the English have the suburbs won. Son. Father, I know; and oft have shot at them, Howe'er, unfortunate, I miss'd my aim. M. Gun. But now thou shalt not: be thou ruled by me. Chief master-gunner am I of this town; How the English, in the suburbs close entrench'd, In yonder tower, to overpeer the city; 1 Pride, spirit of resentment. 2 Spies. And thence discover, how, with most advantage, A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed ; Now do thou watch; for I can stay no longer. If thou spiest any, run and bring me word; [Exit. Son. Father, I warrant you; take you no care: I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them. Enter, in an upper chamber of a tower, the LORDS Sal. Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd! Tal. The duke of Bedford had a prisoner, Once, in contempt, they would have barter'd me: Which I, disdaining, scorn'd, and craved death, Rather than I would be so vile-esteem'd: In fine, redeem'd I was as I desired. But, O! the treacherous Fastolfe wounds my heart! Sal. Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert enter tain'd. Tal. With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. In open market-place produced they me, To be a public spectacle to all. 'Here,' said they, is the terror of the French; My grisly countenance made others fly; None durst come near for fear of sudden death. In iron walls they deem'd me not secure ; So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread, Ready they were to shoot me to the heart. Sal. I grieve to hear what torments you en dured; But we will be revenged sufficiently. Now it is supper-time in Orleans: Here, thorough this grate, I count each one, Let us look in; the sight will much delight thee.- Where is best place to make our battery next. Gar. I think, at the north gate; for there stand lords. Glans. And I, here, at the bulwark of the bridge. Tal. For aught I see, this city must be famish'd, Or with light skirmishes enfeebled. [shot from the town. Salisbury and Sir Thomas Sal. O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched sinners! Speak, Salisbury; at least, if thou canst speak. That hath contrived this woful tragedy! Henry the fifth he first train'd to the wars: fail, One He beckons with his hand, and smiles on me; As who should say,- When I am dead and gone, Plantagenet, I will; and like thee, Nero, [thunder heard; afterwards an alarum. What stir is this? What tumult's in the heavens ? Whence cometh this alarum, and the noise? Enter MESSENGER. Mes. My lord, my lord, the French have gather'd head. The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle join'd,— Is come with a great power to raise the siege. [Salisbury groans. Tal. Hear, hear, how dying Salisbury doth groan! It irks his heart, he cannot be revenged. Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels, And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare. [Exeunt, bearing out the bodies. 1 A dirty wench. |