Much of it I could dispute; but with the latter part of it, in which you compare the two Joans with respect to their predispositions for fanaticism, I toto corde coincide; only I think that Southey's strength rather lies in the description of the emotions of the Maid under the weight of inspiration.

The court was set, the culprit there; Forth from their gloomy mansions creeping, The Lady Janes and Joans repair, And from the gallery stand peeping: 26 Such as in silence of the night Come sweep along some winding entry, (Styack has often seen the sight)

During nine years, from 1347 to 1356, the two Joans were the two heads of their parties in politics and in war.

Whilst the two Joans were exhibiting in Brittany, for the preservation or the recovery of their little dominion, so much energy and persistency, another Joan, no princess, but not the less a heroine, was, in no other interest than the satisfaction of her love and her vengeance, making war, all by herself, on the same territory.

Accordingly the war for the duchy of Brittany, in the fourteenth century, has been called, in history, the war of the three Joans.