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Enter CONSTABLE, ORLÉANS, BOURBON, DAUPHIN, and RAMBURES
The CONSTABLE enters, with the Dukes of ORLÉANS, BOURBON, the DAUPHIN, and RAMBURES.
 CONSTABLE
  Ô diable!
CONSTABLE
O, hell!
 ORLÉANS
  Ô seigneur! Le jour est perdu, tout est erdu!
ORLÉANS
O Lord, the day is lost! All is lost!
 DAUPHIN
  Mort de ma vie, all is confounded, all!
  Reproach and everlasting shame
5 Sits mocking in our plumes.
DAUPHIN
Dear God! All is lost, all! Regret and everlasting shame sit on our helmets, mocking us.
A short alarum
A brief blast of battle noises.
  Ô m´chante Fortune!
  Do not run away.
What stinking luck! Do not run away.
 CONSTABLE
  Why, all our ranks are broke.
CONSTABLE
Our men have all broken ranks.
 DAUPHIN
  O perdurable shame! Let's stab ourselves.
10 Be these the wretches that we played at dice for?
DAUPHIN
O, everlasting shame! Let's fall on our swords. Are these the wretches that we threw dice for?
 ORLÉANS
  Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?
ORLÉANS
Is this the king we offered to ransom?
 BOURBON
  Shame, and eternal shame, nothing but shame!
  Let us die. In once more! Back again!
  And he that will not follow Bourbon now,
15 Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand
  Like a base pander hold the chamber door,
  Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,
  His fairest daughter is contaminate.
BOURBON
Shame, eternal shame, and nothing but shame! Let us die honorably. Back into the fray once again! He who will not follow me now, let him depart and stand in the doorway like a pimp, cap in hand, while some slave, no nobler than my dog, violates his daughter.
 CONSTABLE
  Disorder, that hath spoiled us, friend us now.
20 Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.
CONSTABLE
Maybe we can benefit from the same chaos that has defeated us. Let's go offer up our lives en masse.

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