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!)”