Who
is this that cometh from Domremy? Who is she in bloody coronation robes
from Rheims? Who is she that cometh with blackened flesh from walking
the furnaces of Rouen? This is she, the shepherd girl, counsellor that
had none for herself, whom I choose, bishop, for yours. She it is, I
engage, that shall take my lord's brief. She it is, bishop, that would
plead for you; yes, bishop, _she_--when heaven and earth are silent.
NOTES
THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH
"In October 1849 there appeared in _Blackwood's Magazine_ an
article entitled _The English Mail-Coach, or the Glory of Motion_.
There was no intimation that it was to be continued; but in December
1849 there followed in the same magazine an article in two sections,
headed by a paragraph explaining that it was by the author of the
previous article in the October number, and was to be taken in
connexion with that article. One of the sections of this second article
was entitled _The Vision of Sudden Death_, and the other _Dream-
Fugue on the above theme of Sudden Death_. When De Quincey revised
the papers in 1854 for republication in volume iv of the Collective
Edition of his writings, he brought the whole under the one general
title of _The English Mail-Coach_, dividing the text, as at
present, into three sections or chapters, the first with the sub-title
_The Glory of Motion_, the second with the sub-title _The Vision
of Sudden Death_, and the third with the sub-title _Dream-Fugue,
founded on the preceding theme of Sudden Death_.
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