Constable

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

DAUPHIN

'Le chien est retourne a son propre vomissement, et
la truie lavee au bourbier;' thou makest use of any 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
to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?

Constable

Stars, my lord.

DAUPHIN

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

Constable

And yet my sky shall not want.

DAUPHIN

That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and
'twere more honour some were away.

Constable

Even as your horse bears your praises; who would
trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted.

DAUPHIN

Would I were able to load him with his desert! Will
it never be day? I will trot to-morrow a mile, and
my way shall be paved with English faces.

Constable

I will not say so, for fear I should be faced out of
my way: but I would it were morning; for I would
fain be about the ears of the English.

RAMBURES

Who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners?

Constable

You must first go yourself to hazard, ere you have them.

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