Guard. [Opening the gates.] Enter, go in; the market-bell
is rung.
Pucelle. Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks to the
ground."
The "market-bell" was rung at the hour when the market was to begin.
In the same play (v. 5. 54), when a dower is proposed for Margaret, who is to marry Henry, Suffolk says:—
"A dower, my lords! disgrace not so your king,
That he should be so abject, base, and poor,
To choose for wealth, and not for perfect love.
Henry is able to enrich his queen,