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Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood!

Joan. Once I encounter'd him, and thus I said:

'Thou maiden youth, be vanquish'd by a maid':

But with a proud majestical high scorn,

He answer'd thus: 'Young Talbot was not born

To be the pillage of a giglot wench.'

So, rushing in the bowels of the French,

He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.

Bur. Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;

See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms

Of the most bloody nurser of his harms.

Bast. Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder,

Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder.

Char. O, no! forbear; for that which we have fled

During the life, let us not wrong it dead.

Lucy. Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent,

To know who hath obtain'd the glory of the day.

Char. On what submissive message art thou sent?

Lucy. Submission, Dauphin! 'tis a mere French word;

We English warriors wot not what it means.

I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en,

And to survey the bodies of the dead.

Char. For prisoners ask'st thou? hell our prison is.

But tell me whom thou seek'st.

Lucy. Where is the great Alcides of the field,

Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury?

Created, for his rare success in arms,

 41 giglot: wanton

44 Doubtless: undoubtedly 