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| <H3>SCENE IV. Other plains in Gascony.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter SOMERSET, with his army; a Captain of TALBOT's with him</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>It is too late; I cannot send them now:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>This expedition was by York and Talbot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Too rashly plotted: all our general force</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Might with a sally of the very town</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Be buckled with: the over-daring Talbot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>York set him on to fight and die in shame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>Captain</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10>Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Sir William LUCY</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>How now, Sir William! whither were you sent?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=13>Whither, my lord? from bought and sold Lord Talbot;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Who, ring'd about with bold adversity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Cries out for noble York and Somerset,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>To beat assailing death from his weak legions:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>And whiles the honourable captain there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>And, in advantage lingering, looks for rescue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>You, his false hopes, the trust of England's honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Keep off aloof with worthless emulation.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Let not your private discord keep away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>The levied succors that should lend him aid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>While he, renowned noble gentleman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Yields up his life unto a world of odds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Orleans the Bastard, Charles, Burgundy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Alencon, Reignier, compass him about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>And Talbot perisheth by your default.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=29>York set him on; York should have sent him aid.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=30>And York as fast upon your grace exclaims;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Swearing that you withhold his levied host,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Collected for this expedition.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=33>York lies; he might have sent and had the horse;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>I owe him little duty, and less love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=36>The fraud of England, not the force of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Hath now entrapp'd the noble-minded Talbot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Never to England shall he bear his life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>But dies, betray'd to fortune by your strife.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=40>Come, go; I will dispatch the horsemen straight:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>Within six hours they will be at his aid.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=42>Too late comes rescue: he is ta'en or slain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>For fly he could not, if he would have fled;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>And fly would Talbot never, though he might.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>SOMERSET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=45>If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>LUCY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=46>His fame lives in the world, his shame in you.</A><br> | |
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