105And fightest with the sword of Deborah.

Puc. Christ’s mother helps me, else I were too weak.

Char. Whoe’er helps thee, ’tis thou that must help me:

Impatiently I burn with thy desire;

My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued.

110Excellent Pucelle, if thy name be so,

Let me thy servant and not sovereign be:

[♦]’Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus.

[♦] Puc. I must not yield to any rites of love,

For my profession’s sacred from above: