Shakespeare - First Folio facsimile (1910)/The First Part of King Henry the Sixth/Act 2 Scene 1
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Actus Secundus. Scena Prima.
Enter a Sergeant of a Band, with two Sentinels.
Ser.
Sirs, take your places, and be vigilant:
If any noyse or Souldier you perceiue
Neere to the walles, by some apparant signe
Let vs haue knowledge at the Court of Guard.
Sirs, take your places, and be vigilant:
If any noyse or Souldier you perceiue
Neere to the walles, by some apparant signe
Let vs haue knowledge at the Court of Guard.
Sent.
Sergeant you shall. Thus are poore Seruitors
(When others sleepe vpon their quiet beds)
Constrain'd to watch in darknesse, raine, and cold.
Sergeant you shall. Thus are poore Seruitors
(When others sleepe vpon their quiet beds)
Constrain'd to watch in darknesse, raine, and cold.
Enter Talbot, Bedford, and Burgundy, with scaling
Ladders: Their Drummes beating a
Dead March.
Ladders: Their Drummes beating a
Dead March.
Tal.
Lord Regent, and redoubted Burgundy,
By whose approach, the Regions of Artoys,
Wallon, and Picardy, are friends to vs:
This happy night, the Frenchmen are secure,
Hauing all day carows'd and banquetted,
Embrace we then this opportunitie,
As fitting best to quittance their deceite,
Contriu'd by Art, and balefull Sorcerie.
Lord Regent, and redoubted Burgundy,
By whose approach, the Regions of Artoys,
Wallon, and Picardy, are friends to vs:
This happy night, the Frenchmen are secure,
Hauing all day carows'd and banquetted,
Embrace we then this opportunitie,
As fitting best to quittance their deceite,
Contriu'd by Art, and balefull Sorcerie.
Bed.
Coward of France, how much he wrongs his fame,
Dispairing of his owne armes fortitude,
To ioyne with Witches, and the helpe of Hell.
Coward of France, how much he wrongs his fame,
Dispairing of his owne armes fortitude,
To ioyne with Witches, and the helpe of Hell.
Bur.
Traitors haue neuer other company.
But what's that Puzell whom they tearme so pure?
Traitors haue neuer other company.
But what's that Puzell whom they tearme so pure?
Tal.
A Maid, they say.
A Maid, they say.
Bed.
A Maid? And be so martiall?
A Maid? And be so martiall?
Bur.
Pray God she proue not masculine ere long:
If vnderneath the Standard of the French
She carry Armour, as she hath begun.
Pray God she proue not masculine ere long:
If vnderneath the Standard of the French
She carry Armour, as she hath begun.
Tal.
Well, let them practise and conuerse with spirits.
God is our Fortresse, in whose conquering name
Let vs resolue to scale their flinty bulwarkes.
Well, let them practise and conuerse with spirits.
God is our Fortresse, in whose conquering name
Let vs resolue to scale their flinty bulwarkes.
Bed.
Ascend braue Talbot, we will follow thee.
Ascend braue Talbot, we will follow thee.
Tal.
Not altogether: Better farre I guesse,
That we do make our entrance seuerall wayes:
That if it chance the one of vs do faile,
The other yet may rise against their force.
Not altogether: Better farre I guesse,
That we do make our entrance seuerall wayes:
That if it chance the one of vs do faile,
The other yet may rise against their force.
Bed.
Agreed; Ile to yond corner.
Agreed; Ile to yond corner.
Bur.
And I to this.
And I to this.
Tal.
And heere will Talbot mount, or make his graue.
Now Salisbury, for thee and for the right
Of English Henry, shall this night appeare
How much in duty, I am bound to both.
And heere will Talbot mount, or make his graue.
Now Salisbury, for thee and for the right
Of English Henry, shall this night appeare
How much in duty, I am bound to both.
Sent.
Arme, arme, the enemy doth make assault.
Cry, S. George, A Talbot.
Arme, arme, the enemy doth make assault.
Cry, S. George, A Talbot.
The French leape ore the walles in their shirts. Enter
seuerall wayes, Bastard, Alanson, Reignier,
halfe ready, and halfe vnready.
seuerall wayes, Bastard, Alanson, Reignier,
halfe ready, and halfe vnready.
Alan.
How now my Lords? what all vnreadie so?
How now my Lords? what all vnreadie so?
Bast.
Vnready? I am glad we scap'd so well.
Vnready? I am glad we scap'd so well.
Reig.
'Twas time (I trow) to wake and leaue our beds,
Hearing Alarums at our Chamber doores.
'Twas time (I trow) to wake and leaue our beds,
Hearing Alarums at our Chamber doores.
Alan.
Of all exploits since first I follow'd Armes,
Nere heard I of a warlike enterprize
More venturous, or desperate then this.
Of all exploits since first I follow'd Armes,
Nere heard I of a warlike enterprize
More venturous, or desperate then this.
Bast.
I thinke this Talbot be a Fiend of Hell.
I thinke this Talbot be a Fiend of Hell.
Reig.
If not of Hell, the Heauens sure fauour him.
If not of Hell, the Heauens sure fauour him.
Alans.
Here Commeth Charles, I maruell how he sped?
Here Commeth Charles, I maruell how he sped?
Enter Charles and Ioane.
Bast.
Tut, holy Ioane was his defensiue Guard.
Tut, holy Ioane was his defensiue Guard.
Charl.
Is this thy cunning, thou deceitfull Dame?
Didst thou at first to flatter vs withall,
Make vs partakers of a little gayne,
That now our losse might be ten times so much?
Is this thy cunning, thou deceitfull Dame?
Didst thou at first to flatter vs withall,
Make vs partakers of a little gayne,
That now our losse might be ten times so much?
Ioane.
Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend?
At all times will you haue my Power alike?
Sleeping or waking, must I still preuayle,
Or will you blame and lay the fault on me?
Improuident Souldiors, had your Watch been good,
This sudden Mischiefe neuer could haue falne.
Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend?
At all times will you haue my Power alike?
Sleeping or waking, must I still preuayle,
Or will you blame and lay the fault on me?
Improuident Souldiors, had your Watch been good,
This sudden Mischiefe neuer could haue falne.
Charl.
Duke of Alanson, this was your default,
That being Captaine of the Watch to Night,
Did looke no better to that weightie Charge.
Duke of Alanson, this was your default,
That being Captaine of the Watch to Night,
Did looke no better to that weightie Charge.
Alans.
Had all your Quarters been as safely kept,
As that whereof I had the gouernment,
We had not beene thus shamefully surpriz'd.
Had all your Quarters been as safely kept,
As that whereof I had the gouernment,
We had not beene thus shamefully surpriz'd.
Bast.
Mine was secure.
Mine was secure.
Reig.
And so was mine, my Lord.
And so was mine, my Lord.
Charl.
And for my selfe, most part of all this Night
Within her Quarter, and mine owne Precinct,
I was imploy'd in passing to and fro,
About relieuing of the Centinels.
Then how, or which way, should they first breake in?
And for my selfe, most part of all this Night
Within her Quarter, and mine owne Precinct,
I was imploy'd in passing to and fro,
About relieuing of the Centinels.
Then how, or which way, should they first breake in?
Ioane.
Question (my Lords) no further of the case,
How or which way; 'tis sure they found some place,
But weakely guarded, where the breach was made:
And now there, rests no other shift but this,
To gather our Souldiors, scatter'd and disperc't,
Exeunt.And lay new Plat-formes to endammage them.
Question (my Lords) no further of the case,
How or which way; 'tis sure they found some place,
But weakely guarded, where the breach was made:
And now there, rests no other shift but this,
To gather our Souldiors, scatter'd and disperc't,
Exeunt.And lay new Plat-formes to endammage them.
Alarum. Enter a Souldier, crying, a Talbot, a Talbot:
they flye, leauing their Clothes behind.
they flye, leauing their Clothes behind.
Sould.
Ile be so bold to take what they haue left:
The Cry of Talbot serues me for a Sword,
For I haue loaden me with many Spoyles,
Exit.Vsing no other Weapon but his Name.
Ile be so bold to take what they haue left:
The Cry of Talbot serues me for a Sword,
For I haue loaden me with many Spoyles,
Exit.Vsing no other Weapon but his Name.