Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 19 (piety, thalander, crimes, blessings, loathed, pretend…). Matches are highlighted.
fly the Foe. No partly of him, but will be shame in me. Yes, your renowned Name: shall flight abuse it? You cannot witness for me, being slain. If Death be so apparent, then both fly. And shall my Youth be guilty of such blame? No more can I be severed from your side, Then can your self, your self in twain divide: Stay, go, do
Full speech
Is my name Talbot ? and am I your Son? And shall I fly? Oh, if you love my Mother, Dishonour not her Honourable Name, To make a Bastard, and a Slave of me: The World will say, he is not Talbots blood, That basely fled, when Noble Talbot stood. He that flies so, will never return again. Then let me stay, and Father do you fly: Your lose is great, so your regard should be; My worth unknown, no lose is known in me. Upon my death, the French can little boast; In yours they will, in you all Hope's are lost. Flight cannot stain the Honour you have won, But mine it will, that no Exploit have done. You fled for Vantage, every one will swear: But if I bow, they'le say it was for fear. There is no hope that ever I will stay, If the first hour I shrink and run away: Here on my knee I beg Mortality, Rather then Life, preserved with Infamy. I rather then I'll shame my Mother's Womb, To fight I will, but not to fly the Foe. No partly of him, but will be shame in me. Yes, your renowned Name: shall flight abuse it? You cannot witness for me, being slain. If Death be so apparent, then both fly. And shall my Youth be guilty of such blame? No more can I be severed from your side, Then can your self, your self in twain divide: Stay, go, do what you will, the Like do I; For live I will not, if my Father die. Oh twice my Father, twice am I thy Son: The Life thou gavest me first, was lost and done, Till with thy Warlike Sword, despite of Fate, To my determined time thou gavest new date. The Sword of Orleans hath not made me smart, These words of yours draw Lifeblood from my Heart. On that advantage, bought with such a shame, To save a paltry Life, and slay bright Fame, Before young Talbot from old Talbot fly, The Coward Horse that bears me, fallen and die: And Like me to the peasant Boys of France. To be Shames scorn, and subject of Mischance. Surely, by all the Glory you have won, And if I fly, I am not Talbots Son. Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot, If Son to Talbot, die at Talbots foot.
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.