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If Dauphin and the rest will be but rul'd.

Char. We have been guided by thee hitherto,

And of thy cunning had no diffidence:

One sudden foil shall never breed distrust.

Bast. Search out thy wit for secret policies,

And we will make thee famous through the world.

Alen. We'll set thy statue in some holy place

And have thee reverenc'd like a blessed saint:

Employ thee, then, sweet virgin, for our good.

Joan. Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise:

By fair persuasions, mix'd with sugar'd words,

We will entice the Duke of Burgundy

To leave the Talbot and to follow us.

Char. Ay, marry, sweeting, if we could do that,

France were no place for Henry's warriors;

Nor should that nation boast it so with us,

But be extirped from our provinces.

Alen. For ever should they be expuls'd from France,

And not have title of an earldom here.

Joan. Your honours shall perceive how I will work

To bring this matter to the wished end.

Drum sounds afar off.

Hark! by the sound of drum you may perceive

Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward.

There goes the Talbot, with his colours spread,

And all the troops of English after him.

Now in the rearward comes the duke and his:

 10 diffidence: distrust

16 Employ thee: exert thyself

19, 20 Cf. n.

24 extirped: rooted out 