Shakespere's Holinshed; the Chronicle And the Historical Plays Compared
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iii. — No source for this scene has yet been discovered. The Countess of Auvergne's surprise at the mean aspect (11. 19-24) of " the Scourge of France " (1. 15), with whose " Name the Mothers still their Babes " (1. 17), does not accord with Halle's description of Talbot. tTalbot a 8Gouj;ge and terror to the French.] [The name of Talhot employed to score children,] [Halle, 230.] This man was to the French people a very scorge and a daily terror ; ^ in so muche that as his person was fearfuU and... terrible to his aduersaries present, so his name and fame was spitefull and dreadfiiU to the common people absent ; in so much that women in Fraunce, to feare their yong children, would crye, " the Talbot commeth, the Talbot commeth ! " Act II. sc. iv.' — No one has pointed out a source for this scene and its sequel (III. iv. 28-45 ; IV. i. 78-161). From the next scene we ascertain (cp. II. v. 45-50, 111-114) that Richard Plantagenet and " Somerset " must have quarrelled on January 19, 1425, the historic date of Mortimer's death.
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