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SHAKESPEARE, William

The First Part of Henry the Sixth (1 Henry VI)

History,

comp. 1591-1592; pub. 1623

BEDFORD
Coward of France! How much he wrongs his fame,
Despairing of his own arms' fortitude,
To join with witches and the help of hell.

BURGUNDY
Traitors have never other company.
But what's that 'Pucelle' whom they term so pure?

TALBOT
A maid, they say.

BEDFORD
A maid? And be so martial?

BURGUNDY
Pray God she prove not masculine ere long.
If underneath the standard of the French
She carry armour as she hath begun??

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Duke of Bedford

English

sarcastic, hostile,

Lord Talbot, the Duke of Burgundy, and soldiers

France

Partly in France

Coward of France: i.e. the Dauphin of France, Charles (1403-61).

London

London, Lord Strange's Men, Rose?

William Shakespeare, The Complete Works, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986)

Mayer, J-C

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