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My honourable Lords, health to you all: Sad tidings bring I to you out of France, Of lose, of slaughter, and discomfiture: Guyen, Champagne, Rheims, Orleans, Paris, Guysors, Poitiers, are all quite lost. No treachery, but want of Men and Money. Amongst the Soldiers this is muttered, That here you maintain several Factions: And whilst a Field should be dispatched and fought, You are disputing of your Generals. One would have lingering Wars, with little cost; Another would fly swift, but wants Wings: A third thinks, without expense at all, By guileful fair words, Peace may be obtained. Awake, awake, English Nobility, Let not sloth dim your Honours, new begotten; Cropped are the Flower-de-Luces in your Arms Of England's Coat, one half is cut away. Lords view these Letters, full of bade mischance. France is revolted from the English quite, Except some petty Towns, of no import. The Dolphin Charles is crowned King in Rheims: The Bastard of Orleans with him is joined: Reynold, Duke of Anjou, does take his partly, The Duke of Alanson flies to his side. My Lord, my Lord, the French have gathered head, The Dolphin, with one Joan de Puzel joined, A holy Prophetess, new risen up, Is come with a great Power, to raise the Siege. All hail, my Lords: which of this Princely train Call you the Warlike Talbot, for his Acts So much applauded through the Realm of France? The virtuous Lady, Countess of Ouergne, With modesty admiring thy Renown, By me intreats (great Lord) thou wouldst vouchsafe To visit her poor Castle where she lies, That she may boast she hath beheld the man, Whose glory fills the World with loud report. Madame, according as your Ladyship desired, By Message craved, so is Lord Talbot come. Madame, it is. Stay my Lord Talbot, for my Lady craves, To know the cause of your abrupt departure? They are returned my Lord, and give it out, That he is marched to Bordeaux with his power To fight with Talbot as he marched along. By your espials were discovered Two mightier Troops then that the Dolphin led, Which joined with him, and made their march for Bordeaux My gracious Lords, to add to your laments, Wherewith you now bedew King Henries hearse, I must inform you of a dismal fight, Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot, and the French. Oh send some succour to the distressed Lord. Then God take mercy on brave Talbots soul, And on his Son young John, who two hours since, I met in travail towards his warlike Father; This seven years did not Talbot see his son, And now they meet where both their lives are done. Thus while the Vulture of sedition, Feeds in the bosom of such great Commanders, Sleeping neglection does betray to lose: The Conquest of our scarse-cold Conqueror, That everliving man of Memory, Henry the fifth: While they each other cross, Lives, Honours, Lands, and all, hurry to lose.
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.