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Dau. So perhaps did yours.

Con. Mine was not bridled.

Dau. O! then belike she was old and gentle;

and you rode, like a kern of Ireland, your French

hose off and in your straight strossers.

Con. You have good judgment in horseman-

ship.

Dau. Be warned by me, then: they that ride

so, and ride not warily, fall into foul bogs. I

had rather have my horse to my mistress.

Con. I had as lief have my mistress a jade.

Dau. I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears

his own hair.

Con. I could make as true a boast as that if I

had a sow to my mistress.

Dau. 'Le chien est retourné à son propre

vomissement, et la truie lavée au bourbier': thou

makest use of any thing.

Con. Yet do I not use my horse for my mis-

tress: or any such proverb so little kin to the

purpose.

Ram. My lord constable, the armour that I

saw in your tent to-night, are those stars or

suns upon it?

Con. Stars, my lord.

Dau. Some of them will fall to-morrow, I

hope.

Con. And yet my sky shall not want.

Dau. That may be, for you bear a many

superfluously, and 'twere more honour some

were away.

Con. Even as your horse bears your praises;

 59 kern: light-armed Irish soldier

59, 60 French hose: wide breeches

60 straight strossers: tight trousers

65 to: as

71, 72 Cf. n. 