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They want their Porridge, & their fat Bull Beeves: Either they must be dyeted Like Mules, And have their Provender tied to their mouths, Or piteous they will look, Like drowned Mice. He may mean more then we poor men do know, These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues. How now my Lords? What all unready so? Of all exploits since first I followed Arms, Near herd I of a warlike enterprise More venturous, or desperate then this. Then march to Paris Royal Charles of France, And keep not back your powers in dalliance. Must he be then as shadow of himself? Adorn his Temples with a Coronet, And yet in substance and authority, Retain but privilege of a private man? This proffer is absurd, and reasonless. To say the truth, it is your policy, To save your Subjects from such massacre And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen By our proceeding in Hostility, And therefore take this compact of a Truce, Although you break it, when your pleasure serves. Froysard, a Countryman of ours, records, England all Olivers and Rowland's breed, During the time Edward the third did reign: More truly now may this be verified; For none but Samsons and Goliasses It sends forth to skirmish: one to ten? Lean raw-boned Rascals, who would ever suppose, They had such courage and audacity? Be it so. Leave off delays, and let us raise the Siege. Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock, Else never could he so long protract his speech. All France will be repleat with mirth and joy, When they shall hear how we have played the men. Here comes Charles, I marvel how he sped? Had all your Quarters been as safely kept, As that whereof I had the government, We had not been thus shamefully surprised. Seignior no. We'll set thy Statue in some holy place, And have thee reverenced Like a blessed Saint. Employ thee then, sweet Virgin, for our good. For ever should they be expulsed from France, And not have Title of and Earldom here. Pucell hath bravely played her partly in this, And does deserve a Coronet of Gold.
Plot summary
Plot — 1 Henry the Sixth
King Henry Vis dead, and England's French lands are lost. After a military setback, the French accept the offered aid of Joan Pucelle , who claims supernatural powers from the Virgin Mary; but they also release Talbot in an exchange of prisoners. With Joan 's help the French recapture the occupied town of Orleans, but the English take it back in a night attack led by Talbot. The Countess of Auvergne invites Talbot to visit her. intending treachery, but he second-guesses her and brings soldiers with him. In England, feuds brew between Gloucester and Winchester, and between Richard Plantagenet and the Duke of Somerset, whose supporters show their allegiance by picking different coloured roses. Richard , who has been deprived of his titles through the attainder of his father, learns from the imprisoned and dying Mortimer that he has a claim to the throne . King Henry restores him to his inheritance, creating him Duke of York. Joan takes Rouen by a ruse , but Talbot recaptures it the same day; she then persuades England's ally Burgundy to join the French. After King Henry's coronation in Paris, York is left in command of Prance, but personal tension between him and Somerset means that troop reinforcements arrive late; in consequence, Talbot is defeated, surviving only long enough to learn that his son has perished in battle. Joan conjures devils, but they will not help her: she is captured by York and burned at the stake. The French and English agree a peace which will entail King Henry making a diplomatic marriage, but this is pre-empted when Suffolk captures Margaret and (having fallen in love with her but being alr eady married) plans to install her as Queen of England . Henry agrees to marry her, and Suffolk goes to France to mili the arrangements.