464 THE TRIAL OP JEANNE DARC. have received permission I shall answer willingly. I did not quite understand if my voices forbade me to reply." " What sign do you give that you received that, revela- tion from God, and that it was St. Catherine and St. Mar- garet who conversed with you ?" " I have told you it was they ; believe me if you wish." " Is it forbidden you to tell it ? " " r did not quite understand whether it was forbidden me or not." " How can you distinguish the things which you have permission to reveal from those which you are forbidden ?" " Upon certain points I have asked permission, and upon some I have obtained it. Rather than have come into France without God's permission, I would have been torn asunder by four horses." " Did God command you to dress like a man ? " " As to that dress, it is a trifle — less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any living man ; neither put on this dress nor did anything else except by the command of our Lord and the angels." " Does the command to wear a man's dress seem to you lawful [licite~] ? " " All that I have done was by the command of our Lord. If He had told me to wear another dress, I should have worn it, because it was His command." " Did you not assume this costume by the order of Robert de Baudricourt ? " "No." " Do you think you did well to wear a man's dress ? " " All that I did was by our Lord's order : I believe I did do well. I expect from it good security and good succor." " In this particular case, the wearing of a man's dress, do you think you did well ? "
- ' I have done nothing in the world except by the com-
mand of God."
