And for his safety there I'll best devise. [Exit. Win. Each hath his place and function to attend: I am left out; for me nothing remains. But long I will not be Jack out of office: [Exeunt. SCENE II France. Before Orleans. Sound a Flourish. Enter Charles, Alençon, and Char. Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens 176. "steal," Mason's conjecture; Ff., "send"; Keightley, "fetch." -I. G. 177. This was one of the things charged upon the Bishop by Gloucester when their quarrel broke out. Thus in Holinshed "my said lord of Winchester purposed and disposed him to set hand on the King's person, and to have him removed from Eltham, to the intent to put him in governance as he list."-H. N. H. 1. "Mars his true moving"; cp. "You are as ignorant in the true movings of my muse as the astronomers are in the true movings of Mars, which to this day they could not attain to,” quoted by Steevens from one of Nash's prefaces to Gabriel Harvey's Hunt's Up, 1596. Kepler's work on Mars (Comment. de Motibus Stella Martis) was published in 1609.-I. G. Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts, Faintly besiege us one hour in a month. Alen. They want their porridge and their fat bullbeeves Either they must be dieted like mules, 10 And have their provender tied to their mouths, Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice. Reig. 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. Char. Sound, sound alarum! we will rush on them. Now for the honor of the forlorn French! Him I forgive my death that killeth me When he sees me go back one foot or fly. 20 [Exeunt. Here Alarum; they are beaten back by the English with great loss. Re-enter Charles, Alençon, and Reignier. Char. Who ever saw the like? what men have I! Dogs! cowards! dastards! I would ne'er have fled, But that they left me 'midst my enemies. 13. "live"; Capell, "sit"; Walker, "lie."-I. G. 28. That is, the prey for which they are hungry.—H. N. H. Alen. Froissart, a countryman of ours, records, 30 England all Olivers and Rowlands bred For none but Samsons and Goliases It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten! Char. Let's leave this town; for they are harebrain'd slaves, And hunger will enforce them to be more eager: Of old I know them; rather with their teeth The walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege. Reig. I think, by some odd gimmors or device 40 Their arms are set like clocks, still to strike on; Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do. By my consent, we 'll even let them alone. Alen. Be it so. Enter the Bastard of Orleans Bast. Where's the Prince Dauphin? I have news for him. 30. These were two of the most famous in the list of Charlemagne's twelve peers; and their exploits are the theme of the old romances. From the equally doughty and unheard-of exploits of these champions, arose the saying of “Giving a Rowland for an Oliver," for giving a person as good as he brings.—H. N. H. "bred"; Ff., breed."-I. G. 41. "Gimmors" means any kind of device or machine for producing motion. Thus Digby, Of Man's Soul: "Whence 'tis manifest that his answers do not proceed upon set gimals or strings, whereof one being struck moves the rest in a set order.” And in Bishop Hall's Epistles: "The famous Kentish idol moved her eyes and hands by those secret gimmers which now every puppet play can imitate.”H. N. H. Char. Bastard of Orleans, thrice welcome to us. Bast. Methinks your looks are sad, your cheer appall'd: Hath the late overthrow wrought this offense? A holy maid hither with me I bring, Which by a vision sent to her from heaven 50 And drive the English forth the bounds of The spirit of deep prophecy she hath, Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome: What's past and what 's to come she can descry. [Exit Bastard.] But first, 60 Char. Go, call her in. By this means shall we sound what skill she hath. 47. "Bastard" was not in former times a title of reproach. Hurd, in his Letters on Chivalry and Romance, makes it one of the circumstances of agreement between Heroic and Gothic manners, “that bastardy was in credit with both."-H. N. H. 48. "Cheer" in this instance means heart or courage, as in the expression, “be of good cheer."—H. N. H. 56. “nine sibyls of old Rome." The number of the Sibyls is variously given as three, four, seven, ten; possibly the "nine" is here due to confusion with the nine Sibylline books.-I. G. Warburton says, "there were no nine sibyls of Rome: it is a mistake for the nine Sibylline Oracles brought to one of the Tarquins." But the Poet followed the popular books of his day, which say that the Ten Sibyls were women that had the spirit of prophecy and they prophesied of Christ.-H. N. H. Re-enter the Bastard of Orleans, with Joan La Pucelle. Reig. Fair maid, is 't thou wilt do these wondrous feats? Puc. Reignier is 't thou that thinkest to beguile me? Where is the Dauphin? Come, come from be hind; I know thee well, though never seen before. awhile. 70 Reig. She takes upon her bravely at first dash. ter, My wit untrain❜d in any kind of art. Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs, Will'd me to leave my base vocation, 80 And, whereas I was black and swart before, 86. "which you see," reading of Ff. 2, 3, 4; F. 1, “which you may see."-I. G. |