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A strong body of men was known to be on the way from Paris, under the command of Fastolfe, and Talbot was marching to meet him with a force from the Loire district; they soon met, and together proceeded directly upon Orleans.
There are so many touches of character and definite incidents which apply in common to the two knights that the poet has been assumed to have had the historic Fastolfe ever in view when drawing the portrait of his Falstaff. The historian Fuller assumed this to have been the case, for he complains that the "stage have been overbold" in dealing with Fastolfe's memory.
FASTOLFE. How! general, shall we march against the foe And leave this raging fury in our rear? JOHANNA. What! can a fettered woman frighten thee? LIONEL. Promise, Johanna, not to free thyself. JOHANNA. To free myself is now my only wish. ISABEL. Bind her with triple chains. I pledged my life That she shall not escape. Thou will'st it so! Thou dost compel us! still it rests with thee!
Further south in the High street, and opposite the house in which John Harvard, the founder of America's oldest university, was born, stood the Boar's Head, an inn which was once the property of Sir Fastolfe, and was by him bequeathed through a friend to Magdalen College, Oxford.
She separates the troops all yield to her: The scattered French collect they form anew! Alas! what do I see! Our people cast Their weapons to the ground, our banners sink ISABEL. What? Will she snatch from us the victory? SOLDIER. She presses forward, right towards the king. She reaches him she bears him from the fight Lord Fastolfe falls the general is taken! ISABEL. I'll hear no more! Come down!
The French with flying banners come this way, Their shining weapons glitter in the vale. My people come this way! Proud England now Forth in the field! now boldly must you fight! FASTOLFE. Deluded woman, moderate your joy! You will not see the issue of this day. JOHANNA. My friends will win the fight and I shall die! The gallant heroes need my arm no more. LIONEL. These dastard enemies I scorn.
It was a unique and kindly grace which Joan offered that garrison; but that was her way, that was her loving and merciful nature she always did her best to save her enemy's life and his soldierly pride when she had the mastery of him. The English asked fifteen days' armistice to consider the proposal in. And Fastolfe coming with five thousand men! Joan said no.
Sidney Lee, however, sums up the case thus: "Shakespeare was possibly under the misapprehension, based on the episode of cowardice reported in 'Henry VI, that the military exploits of the historical Sir John Fastolfe sufficiently resembled those of his own riotous knight to justify the employment of a corrupted version of his name.
After this encounter, which seemed decisively to confirm the superiority of the English in battle over their adversaries, Fastolfe escorted large supplies of stores and food to Suffolk's camp, and the spirits of the English rose to the highest pitch at the prospect of the speedy capture of the city before them, and the consequent subjection of all France beneath their arms.
The besieging force also fared hardly for stores and provisions, until relieved by the effects of a brilliant victory which Sir John Fastolfe, one of the best English generals, gained at Rouvrai, near Orleans, a few days after Ash Wednesday, 1429.
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