_Sent._ Arm! arm! the enemy doth make assault!   [aba038] [_Cry: ‘St George,’ ‘A Talbot.’_ _The French leap over the walls in their shirts. Enter, several ways, the_ BASTARD of Orleans, ALENÇON, _and_ REIGNIER, _half ready, and half unready_. _Alen._ How now, my lords! what, all unready so?   [aba039] _Bast._ Unready! ay, and glad we ’scaped so well.   [aba040] _Reig._ ’Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds, Hearing alarums at our chamber-doors. _Alen._ Of all exploits since first I follow’d arms, Ne’er heard I of a warlike enterprise More venturous or desperate than this.   ·aba045· _Bast._ I think this Talbot be a fiend of hell.   [aba046] _Reig._ If not of hell, the heavens, sure, favour him. _Alen._ Here cometh Charles: I marvel how he sped. _Bast._ Tut, holy Joan was his defensive guard.   [aba049] _Enter_ CHARLES _and_ LA PUCELLE. _Char._ Is this thy cunning, thou deceitful dame?   ·aba050· Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal, Make us partakers of a little gain, That now our loss might be ten times so much? _Puc._ Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend? At all times will you have my power alike?   ·aba055· Sleeping or waking must I still prevail, Or will you blame and lay the fault on me? Improvident soldiers! had your watch been good, This sudden mischief never could have fall’n. _Char._ Duke of Alençon, this was your default,   ·aba060· That, being captain of the watch to-night, Did look no better to that weighty charge. _Alen._ Had all your quarters been as safely kept   [aba063] As that whereof I had the government, We had not been thus shamefully surprised.   ·aba065· _Bast._ Mine was secure. _Reig._ And so was mine, my lord. _Char._ And, for myself, most part of all this night, Within her quarter and mine own precinct I was employ’d in passing to and fro, About relieving of the sentinels:   ·aba070· Then how or which way should they first break in? _Puc._ Question, my lords, no further of the case, How or which way: ’tis sure they found some place But weakly guarded, where the breach was made. And now there rests no other shift but this;   ·aba075· To gather our soldiers, scatter’d and dispersed,   [aba076] And lay new platforms to endamage them.   [aba077] _Alarum. Enter an_ English Soldier, _crying ‘A Talbot! a Talbot!’ They fly, leaving their clothes behind_. _Sold._ I’ll be so bold to take what they have left.   [aba078] The cry of Talbot serves me for a sword; For I have loaden me with many spoils,   ·aba080· Using no other weapon but his name. [_Exit._ SCENE II. _Orleans. Within the town_. _Enter_ TALBOT, BEDFORD, BURGUNDY, _a_ Captain, _and others_. _Bed._ The day begins to break, and night is fled,   [abb001] Whose pitchy mantle over-veil’d the earth. Here sound retreat, and cease our hot pursuit.   [abb003] [_Retreat sounded._