The First Part of Henry the Sixth: ACT I
Introduction ACT I SCENE I. Westminster Abbey. SCENE II. France. Before Orleans. SCENE III. London. Before the Tower. SCENE IV. Orleans. SCENE V. The same. SCENE VI. The same. ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE VI. The same. Enter, on the walls, JOAN LA PUCELLE, CHARLES, REIGNIER, ALENCON, and Soldiers JOAN LA PUCELLE       Advance our waving colours on the walls;       Rescued is Orleans from the English       Thus Joan la Pucelle hath perform'd her word. CHARLES       Divinest creature, Astraea's daughter, 5     How shall I honour thee for this success?       Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens       That one day bloom'd and fruitful were the next.       France, triumph in thy glorious prophetess!       Recover'd is the town of Orleans: 10    More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state. REIGNIER       Why ring not out the 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 hath given us. ALENCON 15    All France will be replete with mirth and joy,       When they shall hear how we have play'd the men. CHARLES       'Tis 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 20    Shall in procession sing her endless praise.       A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear       Than Rhodope's or Memphis' ever was:       In memory of her when she is dead,       Her ashes, in an urn more precious 25    Than the rich-jewel'd 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. 30    Come in, and let us banquet royally,       After this golden day of victory. Flourish. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene