Reading The first part of King Henry the Sixt — William Shakespeare

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Talb.

Go to the Gates of Burdeaux Trumpeter,

Summon their Generall vnto the Wall.

Sounds.

Enter Generall aloft.

English Iohn Talbot (Captaines) call you forth,

Seruant in Armes to Harry King of England,

And thus he would. Open your Citie Gates,

Be humble to vs, call my Soueraigne yours,

And do him homage as obedient Subiects,

And Ile withdraw me, and my bloody power.

But if you srowne vpon this proffer'd Peace,

You tempt the fury of my three attendants,

Leane Famine, quartering Steele, and climbing Fire,

Who in a moment, eeuen with the earth,

Shall lay your stately, and ayre‑brauing Towers,

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