READ STUDY GUIDE: Act I, Scenes i-iii |
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Act I, Scene ii
| France. Before Orleans |
| [Sound a Flourish. Enter Charles, Alencon, and Reignier,marching with Drum and Soldiers.] |
| CHARLES.: |
| Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens |
| So in the earth, to this day is not known: |
| Late did he shine upon the English side; |
| Now we are victors; upon us he smiles. |
| What towns of any moment but we have? |
| At pleasure here we lie near Orleans; |
| Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts, |
| Faintly besiege us one hour in a month. |
| ALENCON.: |
| They want their porridge and their fat bull beeves |
| Either they must be dieted like mules, |
| And have their provender tied to their mouths, |
| Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice. |
| REIGNIER.: |
| Let's raise the siege: why live we idly here? |
| Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear: |
| Remaineth none but mad-brain'd Salisbury; |
| And he may well in fretting spend his gall, |
| Nor men nor money hath he to make war. |
| CHARLES.: |
| Sound, sound alarum! we will rush on them. |
| Now for the honour of the forlorn French! |
| Him I forgive my death that killeth me |
| When he sees me go back one foot or flee. |
| [Exeunt.] |
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