I'll canvas1 thee in thy broad cardinal's bat,
If thou proceed in this thy insolence.

Win. Nay, stand thou back; I will not budge a foot: This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,

To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt.

Glo. I will not slay thee, but I'll drive thee back: Thy scarlet robes, as a child's bearing-cloth I'll use, to carry thee out of this place.

Win. Do what thou dar'st: I beard thee to thy face. Glo. What? am I dared, and bearded to my face?— Draw, men, for all this privileged place;

Blue-coats to tawny-coats. Priest, beware your beard;
[GLOSTER and his men attack the Bishop..

I mean to tug it, and to cuff you soundly:
Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal's hat;
In spite of pope or dignities of church,

2

Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.
Win. Gloster, thou'lt answer this before the pope.
Glo. Winchester goose, I cry-a rope! a rope!
Now beat them hence: why do let them stay?
Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in sheep's array.
Out, tawny coats!-out, scarlet hypocrite!

Here a great tumult.

you

In the midst of it, enter the

Mayor of London, and Officers.

May. Fie, lords! that you, being supreme magis

trates,

Thus contumeliously should break the peace!

Glo. Peace, mayor: thou know'st little of my

wrongs:

Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king,
Hath here distrained the tower to his use.

Win. Here's Gloster too, a foe to citizens;
One that still motions war, and never peace,
O'ercharging your free purses with large fines;

1 To canvas was "to toss in a sieve; a punishment (says Cotgrave) inflicted on such as commit gross absurdities."

2 A Winchester goose was a particular stage of the disease contracted

in the stews.

That seeks to overthrow religion,

Because he is protector of the realm;

And would have armor here out of the tower,
To crown himself king, and suppress the prince.
Glo. I will not answer thee with words, but blows.
[Here they skirmish again.
May. Nought rests for me, in this tumultuous strife,
But to make open proclamation :-
Come, officer; as loud as e'er thou canst.

Off. All manner of men, assembled here in arms this day against God's peace and the king's, we charge and command you, in his highness' name, to repair to your several dwelling-places; and not to wear, handle, or use, any sword, weapon, or dagger, henceforward, upon pain of death.

Glo. Cardinal, I'll be no breaker of the law; But we shall meet, and break our minds at large. Win. Gloster, we'll meet; to thy dear cost, be sure. Thy heart-blood I will have, for this day's work. May. I'll call for clubs,' if you will not away: This cardinal is more haughty than the devil. Glo. Mayor, farewell; thou dost but what thou

mayst.

Win. Abominable Gloster! guard thy head; For I intend to have it ere long.

[Exeunt. May. See the coast cleared, and then we will

depart.

Good God! that nobles should such stomachs bear! I myself fight not once in forty year.

[Exeunt.

1 The practice of calling out Clubs! clubs! to call out the London apprentices upon the occasion of any affray in the streets, has been before explained.

SCENE IV. France. Before Orleans.

Enter, on the walls, the Master Gunner and his Son.

M. Gun. Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is besieged;

And how the English have the suburbs won.

Son. Father, I know; and oft have shot at them, Howe'er, unfortunate, I missed my aim.

M. Gun. But now thou shalt not.

by me:

Be thou ruled

Chief master-gunner am I of this town;
Something I must do, to procure me grace:
The prince's espials have informed me,

How the English, in the suburbs close intrenched,
Wont,' through a secret grate of iron bars

In yonder tower, to overpeer the city;

And thence discover how, with most advantage,
They may vex us, with shot, or with assault.
To intercept this inconvenience,

A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed;
And fully even these three days have I watched,
If I could see them. Now, boy, do thou watch,
For I can stay no longer.

If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word;'

And thou shalt find me at the governor's.

[Exit.

Son. Father, I warrant you; take you no care:

I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them.

Enter, in an upper chamber of a tower, the LORDS
SALISBURY and TALBOT, SIR WILLIAM GLANSDALE,
SIR THOMAS GARGRAVE, and others.

Sal. Talbot, my life, my joy, again returned!
How wert thou handled, being prisoner?
Or by what means gott'st thou to be released?
Discourse, I pr'ythee, on this turret's top.

1 The old copy reads went; the emendation is Mr. Tyrwhitt's.

Tal. The duke of Bedford had a prisoner,
Called the brave lord Ponton de Santrailles;
For him I was exchanged and ransomed.
But with a baser man of arms by far,

Once, in contempt, they would have bartered me;
Which I, disdaining, scorned; and craved death
Rather than I would be so vile esteemed.'
In fine, redeemed I was as I desired.
But, O! the treacherous Fastolfe wounds
Whom with my bare fists I would execute,
If I now had him brought into my power.

my

heart!

Sal. Yet tell'st thou not, how thou wert entertained. Tal. With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious

taunts.

In open market-place produced they me,
To be a public spectacle to all:

Here, said they, is the terror of the French,2
The scare-crow that affrights our children so.
Then broke I from the officers that led me;

And with my nails digged stones out of the ground
To hurl at the beholders of my shame.

My grisly countenance made others fly;

None durst come near for fear of sudden death.
In iron walls they deemed me not secure ;

So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread,
That they supposed I could rend bars of steel,
And spurn in pieces posts of adamant :
Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had,
That walked about me every minute-while;
And if I did but stir out of my bed,

Ready they were to shoot me to the heart.

Sal. I grieve to hear what torments you endured; But we will be revenged sufficiently.

Now it is supper-time in Orleans;

1 The old copy reads "piled esteemed."

2 "This man [Talbot] was to the French people a very scourge and a daily terror, insomuch that as his person was fearful and terrible to his adversaries present, so his name and fame was spiteful and dreadful to the common people absent; insomuch that women in France, to feare their yong children, would crye the Talbot cometh."-Hall's Chronicle.

Here, through this grate, I can count every one,
And view the Frenchmen how they fortify;
Let us look in; the sight will much delight thee.—
Sir Thomas Gargrave, and sir William Glansdale,
Let me have your express opinions,

Where is best place to make our battery next.

Gar. I think, at the north gate, for there stand lords Glan. And I, here, at the bulwark of the bridge. Tal. For aught I see, this city must be famished, Or with light skirmishes enfeebled.

[Shot from the town.

SALISBURY and SIR
THO. GARGRAVE fall.

Sal. O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched sinners.
Gar. O Lord, have mercy on me, woful man!
Tal. What chance is this, that suddenly hath
crossed us?—

Speak, Salisbury; at least, if thou canst speak;
How far'st thou, mirror of all martial men?

One of thy eyes, and thy cheek's side struck off!1-
Accursed tower! accursed, fatal hand,
That hath contrived this woful tragedy!
In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame;
Henry the Fifth he first trained to the wars;
Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up,
His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field.-
Yet liv'st thou, Salisbury? though thy speech doth fail,
One eye thou hast to look to Heaven for grace;
The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.-
Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive,
If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands!-
Bear hence his body; I will help to bury it.—
Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?
Speak unto Talbot; nay, look up to him.
Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort;
Thou shalt not die, whiles-

1 Camden says, in his Remaines, that the French scarce knew the use of great ordnance till the siege of Mans in 1455, when a breach was made in the walls of that town by the English, under the conduct of this earl of Salisbury; and that he was the first English gentleman that was slain by a cannon ball.