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第4章

Draw, men, for all this privileged place;Blue coats to tawny coats. Priest, beware your beard, I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly:

Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal's hat:

In spite of pope or dignities of church, Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.

BISHOP OF WINCHESTER Gloucester, thou wilt answer this before the pope. GLOUCESTER Winchester goose, I cry, a rope! a rope!

Now beat them hence; why do you let them stay?

Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in sheep's array.

Out, tawny coats! out, scarlet hypocrite!

Here GLOUCESTER's men beat out BISHOP OF WINCHESTER's men, and enter in the hurly- burly the Mayor of London and his Officers Mayor Fie, lords! that you, being supreme magistrates, Thus contumeliously should break the peace! GLOUCESTER Peace, mayor! thou know'st little of my wrongs:

Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king, Hath here distrain'd the Tower to his use.

BISHOP OF WINCHESTER Here's Gloucester, a foe to citizens, One that still motions war and never peace, O'ercharging your free purses with large fines, That seeks to overthrow religion, Because he is protector of the realm, And would have armour here out of the Tower, To crown himself king and suppress the prince. GLOUCESTER I will not answer thee with words, but blows.

Here they skirmish again Mayor Naught rests for me in this tumultuous strife But to make open proclamation:

Come, officer; as loud as e'er thou canst, Cry. Officer All manner of men assembled here in arms this day against God's peace and the king's, we charge and command you, in his highness' name, to repair to your several dwelling-places; and not to wear, handle, or use any sword, weapon, or dagger, henceforward, upon pain of death. GLOUCESTER Cardinal, I'll be no breaker of the law:

But we shall meet, and break our minds at large.

BISHOP OF WINCHESTER Gloucester, we will meet; to thy cost, be sure:

Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work. Mayor I'll call for clubs, if you will not away.

This cardinal's more haughty than the devil. GLOUCESTER Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst.

BISHOP OF WINCHESTER Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head;For I intend to have it ere long.

Exeunt, severally, GLOUCESTER and BISHOP OF WINCHESTER with their Serving-men Mayor See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart.

Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!

I myself fight not once in forty year.

Exeunt SCENE IV. Orleans. Enter, on the walls, a Master Gunner and his Boy Master-Gunner Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is besieged, And how the English have the suburbs won. Boy Father, I know; and oft have shot at them, Howe'er unfortunate I miss'd my aim.

Master-Gunner But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me:

Chief master-gunner am I of this town;

Something I must do to procure me grace.

The prince's espials have informed me How the English, in the suburbs close intrench'd, Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars In yonder tower, to overpeer the city, And thence discover how with most advantage They may vex us with shot, or with assault.

To intercept this inconvenience, A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed;And even these three days have I watch'd, If I could see them.

Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.

If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word;And thou shalt find me at the governor's.

Exit Boy Father, I warrant you; take you no care;I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them.

Exit Enter, on the turrets, SALISBURY and TALBOT, GLANSDALE, GARGRAVE, and others SALISBURY Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd!

How wert thou handled being prisoner?

Or by what means got'st thou to be released?

Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top. TALBOT The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner Call'd the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles;For him was I exchanged and ransomed.

But with a baser man of arms by far 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, Whom with my bare fists I would execute, If I now had him brought into my power. SALISBURY Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertain'd. TALBOT 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, The scarecrow that affrights our children so.

Then broke I from the officers that led me, And with my nails digg'd stones out of the ground, To hurl at the beholders of my shame:

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, That they supposed I could rend bars of steel, And spurn in pieces posts of adamant:

Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had, That walked about me every minute-while;And if I did but stir out of my bed, Ready they were to shoot me to the heart.

Enter the Boy with a linstock SALISBURY I grieve to hear what torments you endured, But we will be revenged sufficiently Now it is supper-time in Orleans:

Here, through this grate, I count each one and view the Frenchmen how they fortify:

Let us look in; the sight will much delight thee.

Sir Thomas Gargrave, and Sir William Glansdale, Let me have your express opinions Where is best place to make our battery next. GARGRAVE I think, at the north gate; for there stand lords. GLANSDALE And I, here, at the bulwark of the bridge. TALBOT For aught I see, this city must be famish'd, Or with light skirmishes enfeebled.

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