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ACT IV - SCENE IV. Other plains in Gascony.
SOMERSET
1    It is too late; I cannot send them now:
2    This expedition was by York and Talbot
3    Too rashly plotted: all our general force
4    Might with a sally of the very town
5    Be buckled with: the over-daring Talbot
6    Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour
7    By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure:
8    York set him on to fight and die in shame,
9    That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name.
Captain
10   Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me
11   Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.
Enter Sir William LUCY

SOMERSET
12   How now, Sir William! whither were you sent?
LUCY
13   Whither, my lord? from bought and sold Lord Talbot;
14   Who, ring'd about with bold adversity,
15   Cries out for noble York and Somerset,
16   To beat assailing death from his weak legions:
17   And whiles the honourable captain there
18   Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs,
19   And, in advantage lingering, looks for rescue,
20   You, his false hopes, the trust of England's honour,
21   Keep off aloof with worthless emulation.
22   Let not your private discord keep away
23   The levied succors that should lend him aid,
24   While he, renowned noble gentleman,
25   Yields up his life unto a world of odds:
26   Orleans the Bastard, Charles, Burgundy,
27   Alencon, Reignier, compass him about,
28   And Talbot perisheth by your default.
SOMERSET
29   York set him on; York should have sent him aid.
LUCY
30   And York as fast upon your grace exclaims;
31   Swearing that you withhold his levied host,
32   Collected for this expedition.
SOMERSET
33   York lies; he might have sent and had the horse;
34   I owe him little duty, and less love;
35   And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending.
LUCY
36   The fraud of England, not the force of France,
37   Hath now entrapp'd the noble-minded Talbot:
38   Never to England shall he bear his life;
39   But dies, betray'd to fortune by your strife.
SOMERSET
40   Come, go; I will dispatch the horsemen straight:
41   Within six hours they will be at his aid.
LUCY
42   Too late comes rescue: he is ta'en or slain;
43   For fly he could not, if he would have fled;
44   And fly would Talbot never, though he might.
SOMERSET
45   If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu!
LUCY
46   His fame lives in the world, his shame in you.
Exeunt

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Scene Index
ACT I
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III
  • SCENE IV
  • SCENE V
  • SCENE VI


  • ACT II
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III
  • SCENE IV
  • SCENE V


  • ACT III
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III
  • SCENE IV


  • ACT IV
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III
  • SCENE IV
  • SCENE V
  • SCENE VI
  • SCENE VII


  • ACT V
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III
  • SCENE IV
  • SCENE V

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