Glo. Lieutenant, is it you, whose voice I hear? Open the gates; here's Gloster, that would enter. Wood. Have patience, noble duke; I may not open; The cardinal of Winchester forbids:

From him I have express commandment,

That thou, nor none of thine, shall be let in.

Glo. Faint-hearted Woodville, prizest him 'fore me? Arrogant Winchester? that haughty prelate, Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook? Thou art no friend to God, or to the king: Open the gates, or I'll shut thee out shortly.

1 Serv. Open the gates unto the lord protector; Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly. Enter WINCHESTER, attended by a Train of Servants in tawny-coats.

Win.How now,ambitious Humphrey? what means this? Glo. Piel'd priest, 2 dost thou command me to be shut out?

Win. I do, thou most usurping proditor,

And not protector of the king or realm.

Glo. Stand back, thou manifest conspirator; Thou, that contriv'st to murder our dead lord; Thou, that giv'st whores indulgences to sin :3 I'll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal's hat, 4 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.5

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 dar'd, 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.

[2] Alluding to his shaven crown. POPE.

[3] The public stews were formerly under the district of the bishop of Winchester. POPE.

[4] To canvas was anciently used for to sift. STEEV-Probably from the materials of which the bottom of a sieve is made Perhaps, however, in the passage before us Gloster means, that he will toss the cardinal in a sheet. Coarse sheets were formerly termed canvass sheets. MAL.

[5] About four miles from Damascus is a high hill, reported to be the same on which Cain slew his brother Abel. Maundrel's Travels, p. 131. POPE.

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,

Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.
Win. Gloster, thou'lt answer this before the pope.
Glo. Winchester goose, 6 I cry-A rope! a rope!
-Now beat them hence, Why do you let them stay?
-Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in sheep's array.-
Out, tawny coats!-out, scarlet hypocrite!

Here a great tumult. In the midst of it, enter the
Mayor of London and his Officers.

May. Fie, lord's! that you, being supreme magistrates, 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 distrain'd the tower to his use.

Win. Here's Gloster too, a foe to citizens ;
One that still motions war, and never peace.
O'er-charging your free purses with large fines;
That seeks to overthrow religion,

Because he is protector of the realm;

And would have armour 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.

Offi. 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, 7 if you will not away ;—

[6] A strumpet, or the consequences of her love, was a Winchester goose.

[7] That is, for peace-officers armed with clubs or staves. was customary in this author's time to call out clubs, clubs!

JOHNS.
In affrays, it
MAL.

This cardinal is more haughty than the devil.
Glo. Mayor, farewell; thou dost but what thou may'st.
Win. Abominable Gloster! guard thy head;
For I intend to have it, ere long.

[Exeunt.
May. See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart.-
Good God that nobles should such stomachs bear !8
I myself fight not once in forty year.

SCENE IV.

[Exeunt.

France. Before Orleans. Enter, on the walls, the Master-gunner and his Son.

M.Gun. Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is besieg'd; And how the English have the suburbs won.

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

Be thou rul'd by me :

M.Gun. But now thou shalt not.
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 intrench'd,
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 plac'd ;
And fully even these three days have I watch'd,
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 governour'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 SAL-
ISBURY and TALBOT, Sir WILLIAM GLANSDALE,
Sir THOMAS GARGRAVE, and others.

Sal. Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd!
How wert thou handled, being prisoner?
Or by what means gott'st thou to be releas'd?

18] Stomach is pride, a haughty spirit of resentment. STEEV.

[9] The third person plural of the old verb wont. The English-won't, that is, are accustomed to over-peer the city. The word is used very frequently by Spenser, and several times by Milton. TYRWHITT.

Discourse, I pr'ythee, on this turret's top.

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

Once, in contempt, they would have barter'd me:
Which I, disdaining, scorn'd; and craved death
Rather than I would be so pil'd esteem'd. '

In fine, redeem'd I was as I desir'd.

But, O the treacherous Fastolfe wounds my heart!
Whom with my bare fists I would execute,

If I now had him brought into my power.

Sal. Yet tell'st thou not, how thou wert entertain'd. Tal. With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. In open market-place produc'd they me,

To be a public spectacle to all;

Here, said they, is the terror of the French,

The scare-crow that affrights our children so.2
Then broke I from the officers that led me ;

And with my nails digg'd 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 deem'd me not secure;

So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread,
That they suppos'd, I could rend bars of steel,
And spurn in pieces posts of adamant :
Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had,
That walk'd 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 endur'd; But we will be reveng'd sufficiently.

Now it is supper-time in Orleans:

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,

STEEV.

[1] So pil'd, may mean-so pillag'd, so stripp'd of honour. [2] From Hall's Chronicle: 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 commeth, the Talbot commeth " The same thing is said of King Richard I, when he was in the Holy Land,

MAL.

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 famish'd, Or with light skirmishes enfeebled.

[Shot from the town.

SALISBURY and Sir THOMAS GARGRAVE fall.

Sal. O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched sinners!
Gar. O Lord, have mercy on me, woeful man!
Tal.What chance is this, that suddenly hath cross'd 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!-3-
Accursed tower! accursed fatal hand,

That hath contriv'd this woeful tragedy,
In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame ;
Henry the Fifth he first train'd 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-

-He beckons with his hand, and smiles on me ;
As who should say, When I am dead and gone,
Remember to avenge me on the French.-
Plantagenet, I will; and Nero-like,

Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn:
Wretched shall France be only in my name.

[Thunder heard; afterwards an alarum. What stir is this? What tumult's in the heavens? Whence cometh this alarum, and the noise?

Enter a Messenger.

Mes. My lord,my lord, the French have gather'd head:

[3] Camden says that the French scarce knew the use of great ordnance, till the siege of Mans in 1455, wh 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.

MAL.