First Part of King Henry VI Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: This cardinal's more haughty than the devil. Glou. Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst. Win. Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head ; For I in... more »tend to have it ere long. [Exeunt, severally, Gloucester and WinChester with their Serving-men. May. See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart. Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear ! I myself fight not once in forty year. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Orleans. Enter, on the wails, a Master Gunner and his Boy. M. Gun. Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is besieged, And how the English have the suburbs won. Boy. Father, I know ; and oft have shot at them, Howe'er unfortunate I miss'd my aim. M. Gun. But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me: 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 placed ; And even these three days have I watch'd, If I could see them. Now 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. Boy. Father, I warrant you ; take you no care : I 'll never trouble you, if I may spy them. [Exit. Enter, on the turrets, the Lords Salisbury and Talbot, Sir William Glansdale, Sir Thomas Garorave, and others. Sal. Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd ! How wert thou handled being prisoner ? Or by what means got'st thou to be released ? Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top. Tal. The Duke of Bedford had a ...« less