Quick! Catch him!
JOHANNA
[To Squire.]
Stay! “A lady?”
[Pursued, the Friar drops his parchment, and, as the Squire
stops to pick it up, escapes at the garden gate.]
PRIORESS
[Holding her parchment, confronts Chaucer.]
Stay, Monsieur.
[Reads.]
“And French she spake (St. Patrick taught her how!)”