95.] The Maid, who was always ready to show mercy to prisoners when they surrendered and at the same time always ready to fight, said: "If they will, let them in their jackets of mail depart from Jargeau with their lives! If they will not, the town shall be stormed."[1208] [Footnote 1208: _Ibid._, vol.i, pp.

79-80, 234.] The Duke of Alencon, without even inquiring the terms of the capitulation, had Captain La Hire recalled.
He came, and straightway the ladders were brought.

The heralds sounded the trumpets and cried: "To the assault." The Maid unfurled her standard, and fully armed, wearing on her head one of those light helmets known as _chapelines_,[1209] she went down into the trenches with the King's men and the train-bands, well within reach of arrows and cannon-balls.

She kept by the Duke of Alencon's side, saying: "Forward! fair duke, to the assault." [Footnote 1209: _Ibid._, vol.iii, p.97.Perceval de Cagny, pp.
150-151.] The Duke, who was not so courageous as she, thought that she went rather hastily to work; and this he gave her to understand.
Then she encouraged him: "Fear not.

God's time is the right time.