nne, Chancellor of England, had his eyes full of tears. The
Cardinal of Winchester, who was said never to enter a church save to
pray for the death of an enemy,[2570] had pity on this damsel so woeful
and so contrite. Brother Pierre Maurice, the canon who was a reader of
the AEneid, could not keep back his tears. All the priests who had
delivered her to the executioner were edified to see her make so holy
an end. That is what Maitre Jean Alespee meant when he sighed: "I
would that my soul were where I believe the soul of that woman to
be."[2571] To himself and the hapless sufferer he applied the following
lines from the _Dies irae_:

_Qui Mariam absolvisti,
Mihi quoque spem dedisti._[2572]

[Footnote 2570: Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 1, act i, scene 1.]

[Footnote 2571: _Trial_, vol. ii, p. 6; vol. iii, pp. 53, 191, 375.]

[Footnote 2572: _Missel Romain, Office des morts._ Cf. Le P. C. Clair,
_Le Dies irae, histoire, traduction et commentaire_, Paris, in 8vo,
1881, pp. 38-142.]

But none the less he must have believed that by her heresies and her
obstinacy she had brought death on herself.

The two young friars preachers and the Usher Massieu accompanied
Jeanne to the stake.

She asked for a cross. An Englishman made a tiny one out of two pieces
of wood, and gave it to her. She took it devoutly and put it in her
bosom, on her breast. Then she besought Brother Isambart to go to the
neighbouring church to fetch a cross, to bring it to her and hold it
before her, so that as long as she lived, the cross on which God was
crucified should be ever in her sight.

Massieu asked a priest of Saint-Sauveur for one, and it was brought.
Jeanne weeping kissed it long and tenderly, and her hands held it
while they were free.[2573]

[Footnote 2573: _Trial_, vol. ii, pp. 6, 20.]

As she was being bound to the stake she invoked the aid of Saint
Michael; and now at length no examiner was present to ask her whether
it were really he she saw in her father's garden. She prayed also to
Saint Catherine.[2574]

[Footnote 2574: _Ibid._, vol. iii, p. 170.]

When she saw a light put to the stake, she cried loudly, "Jesus!" This
name she repeated six times.[2575] She was also heard asking for holy
water.[2576]

[Footnote 2575: _Ibid._, p. 186.]

[Footnote 2576: _Ibid._, vol. ii, p. 8; vol. iii, pp. 169, 194.]

It was usual for the executioner, in order to cut short the sufferings
of the victim, to stifle him in dense smok