No Fear Shakespeare
Henry V
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 3, Scene 7, Page 3
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CONSTABLE
Mine was not bridled.
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CONSTABLE
Mine wasn’t wearing a bridle.
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DAUPHIN
Oh, then belike she was old and gentle, and you rode, like
a kern of Ireland, your French hose off and in your straight
strossers.
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DAUPHIN
Oh, then I guess she was old and gentle, and you rode barelegged, like an Irish yokel.
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CONSTABLE
You have good judgment in horsemanship.
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CONSTABLE
You’re a good judge of horsemanship.
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DAUPHIN
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.
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DAUPHIN
Take a tip from me, then. Those who don’t take care when they ride often find themselves thrown into a messy situation. I’d rather have my horse than a mistress.
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CONSTABLE
I had as lief have my mistress a jade.
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CONSTABLE
I’d prefer to keep my mistress rather than some lame horse.
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DAUPHIN
I tell thee, Constable, my mistress wears his own hair.
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DAUPHIN
I’ll tell you this, Constable, my mistress has his own hair.
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CONSTABLE
I could make as true a boast as that if I had a sow to my
mistress.
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CONSTABLE
I could make the same boast even if I had a pig as my mistress.
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DAUPHIN
“Le chien est retourné à son propre vomissement, et la truie
lavée au bourbier.” Thou mak’st use of anything.
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DAUPHIN
“The dog returns to its own vomit, and the newly washed sow to its mud puddle.”
You’d take anything for a mistress.
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CONSTABLE
Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any such
proverb so little kin to the purpose.
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CONSTABLE
At least I don’t have a horse for my mistress—or a saying so beside the point.
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RAMBURES
My Lord Constable, the armor that I saw in your tent
tonight, are those stars or suns upon it?
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RAMBURES
My Lord Constable, are those stars or suns I saw on the armor in your tent tonight?
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CONSTABLE
Stars, my lord.
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CONSTABLE
Stars, my lord.
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DAUPHIN
Some of them will fall tomorrow, I hope.
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DAUPHIN
I hope some will fall off tomorrow.
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