The Handy-Volume Shakspeare Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...Rouen; Therefore we'll knock. Knocks. Guard, within. Qui est Id? Puc. Paisans, pauvres gens de France: Poor market-folks, that come to sell their corn. Guard. Enter, go in; the market-bell is rung. Opens the gates Puc. Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks to the ground. pucelle, &c, enter the City. Enter Charles, the Bastard of Orleans, Alencon, Reignier, and Forces. Char. Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem And once again we'll sleep secure in Rouen. Bast. Here enter'd Pucelle, andher practisants; Now she is there, how will she specify Where is the best and safest passage in? Reign. By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower; Which, once discern'd, shows that her meaning is, --No way to that, for weakness, which she enter d. Enter La Pucelle on a battlement, holding out a torch burning. Puc. Behold, this is the happy wedding torch, That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen; But burning fatal to the Talbotites. Bast. See, noble Charles the beacon of our friend, The burning torch, in yonder turret stands. Char. Now shine it like a comet of revenge, A prophet to the fall of all our foes Reign. Defer no time: delays have dangerous ends; Enter, and cry--The Dauphin --presently, And then do execution on the watch. They enter. A larutns. Enter Talbot and certain English. Tal. France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears, If Talbot but survive thy treachery. Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress, Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares, That hardly we escaped the pride of France. Exeunt to the Town. Alarum; excursions. Enter, from the Town, Bedford, brought in sick, in a chair, with Talbot, BurGundy, and the English Forces. Then, enter on the walls, La Pucelle, Charles, the Bastard, Alencon, Reignier, and others. Puc. Good morrow, gallants wan...