Page 1674 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

ORLEANS

The Lord Grandpré.

CONSTABLE
A valiant and most expert gentleman. Would it were day! Alas, poor Harry of
England, he longs not for the dawning as we do.

ORLEANS
What a wretched and peevish fellow is this [130] King of England, to mope

with his fat-brained followers so far out of his knowledge!

CONSTABLE

If the English had any apprehension, they would run away.

ORLEANS
That they lack; for if their heads had any intellectual [135] armour, they
could never wear such heavy headpieces.

RAMBURES
That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of
unmatchable courage.

ORLEANS
Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth [140] of a Russian bear and

have their heads crushed like rotten apples! You may as well say that’s a
valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

CONSTABLE
Just, just; and the men do sympathize with the mastiffs in robustious and
rough coming on, leaving [145] their wits with their wives: and then give

them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and
fight like devils.

ORLEANS
Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.

CONSTABLE