I dared make no show of eagerness, though now the month of May had come, which was both her good and ill month.

For in May she first went to Vaucouleurs and prophesied, in May she delivered Orleans, and in May she was taken at Compiegne.
Wherefore I deemed, as men will, that in May she should escape her prison, or in May should die.

Moreover, on the first day of March they had asked her, mocking her-- "Shalt thou be delivered ?" And she had answered-- "Ask me on this day three months, and I shall declare it to you." The English, knowing this, made all haste to end her ere May ended, wherefore I had the more occasion for speed.
Now, on a certain day, being May the eighth, the heart of John Grey was merry within him.

He had well drunk, and I had let him win of me, at the dice, that one of my three horses which most he coveted.
He then struck me in friendly fashion on the back, and cried-- "An unlucky day for thee, and for England.

This very day, two years agone, that limb of the devil drove us by her sorceries from before Orleans.