PUCELLE
Advance our waving colours on the walls;
Rescued is Orleans from the English.
Thus Joan la Pucelle perform’d her word.
CHARLES
Divinest creature, Astraea’s daughter,
How shall I honour for this success?
promises are like Adonis’ gardens
That one day bloom’d and fruitful were the next.
France, triumph in glorious prophetess!
Recover’d is the town of Orleans.
More blessed hap did befall our state.
REIGNIER
Why ring not bells aloud throughout the town?
Dauphin, command the citizens make bonfires
And feast and banquet in the open streets
To celebrate the joy that God given us.
ALENÇON
All France will be replete with mirth and joy
When they shall hear how we have play’d the men.
CHARLES
Joan, not we, by whom the day is won;
For which I will divide my crown with her,
And all the priests and friars in my realm
Shall in procession sing her endless praise.
A statelier pyramis to her I’ll rear
Than Rhodope’s of Memphis ever was;
In memory of her when she is dead,
Her ashes, in an urn more precious
Than the rich-jewel’d coffer of Darius,
Transported shall be at high festivals
Before the kings and queens of France.
No longer on Saint Denis will we cry,
But Joan la Pucelle shall be France’s saint.
Come in, and let us banquet royally
After this golden day of victory.