Page 1670 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

So perhaps did yours.

CONSTABLE
Mine was not bridled. [50]

DAUPHIN
O, then, belike she was old and gentle, and you rode, like a kern of Ireland,
your French hose off, and in your strait strossers.

CONSTABLE
You have good judgement in horsemanship.

DAUPHIN
Be warned by me, then: they that ride so, and [55] ride not warily, fall into

foul bogs. I had rather have my horse to my mistress.

CONSTABLE
I had as lief have my mistress a jade.

DAUPHIN
I tell three, Constable, my mistress wears his own hair. [60]

CONSTABLE
I could make as true a boast as that, if I had a sow to my mistress.

DAUPHIN
“Le chien est retourné à son propre vomissement, et la truie lavée au
bourbier”: thou makest use of any [65] thing.

CONSTABLE

Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress; or any such proverb so little kin to
the purpose.

RAMBURES
My Lord Constable, the armour that I saw in your tent tonight, are those stars
or suns upon it?