Part 414 (1/2)

BURGUNDY.

Go! go! The thought of combating for you Unnerves the courage of the bravest men.

ISABEL.

I scarce among you have established peace, And you already form a league against me!

TALBOT.

Go, in G.o.d's name. When you have left the camp No devil will again appal our troops.

ISABEL.

Say, am I not your true confederate?

Are we not banded in a common cause?

TALBOT.

Thank G.o.d! your cause of quarrel is not ours.

We combat in an honorable strife.

BURGUNDY.

A father's b.l.o.o.d.y murder I avenge.

Stern filial duty consecrates my arms.

TALBOT.

Confess at once. Your conduct towards the Dauphin Is an offence alike to G.o.d and man.

ISABEL.

Curses blast him and his posterity!

The shameless son who sins against his mother!

BURGUNDY.

Ay! to avenge a husband and a father!

ISABEL.

To judge his mother's conduct he presumed!

LIONEL.

That was, indeed, irreverent in a son!

ISABEL.

And me, forsooth, he banished from the realm.

TALBOT.

Urged to the measure by the public voice.

ISABEL.

A curse light on him if I e'er forgive him!

Rather than see him on his father's throne----

TALBOT.

His mother's honor you would sacrifice!

ISABEL.

Your feeble natures cannot comprehend The vengeance of an outraged mother's heart.