195, 222, 223.] [Footnote 334: L.Jarry, _Le compte de l'armee anglaise au siege d'Orleans_, Orleans, 1892, in 8vo, pp.

75, 76.] Jeanne gave utterance according to the promptings of her Archangel and her Saints, and touching warfare and the condition of the kingdom they knew neither more nor less than she.

But it is not surprising that those who believe themselves sent by God should ask to be waited for.
And again in the damsel's fear lest the French knights should once more give battle after their own guise there was much of the sound common sense of the people.

They were only too well acquainted with knightly warfare.
Perfectly calm and self-possessed, Jeanne went on and uttered a prophecy concerning the Dauphin: "Before mid Lent my Lord will grant him aid." Then straightway she added: "But in very deed the realm belongs not to the Dauphin.

Nathless it is Messire's will that the Dauphin should be king and receive the kingdom in trust--_en commande_.[335] Notwithstanding his enemies, the Dauphin shall be king; and it is I who shall lead him to his anointing." [Footnote 335: _Et quod aberet in commendam: illud regnum_, _Trial_, vol.ii, p.