Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Dolph. Dolph.
Dolph. And of the heat of the Ginger. It is a Beast for Perseus: hee is pure Ayre and Fire; and the dull Ele- ments of Earth and Water neuer appeare in him, but on- ly in patient stillnesse while his Rider mounts him: hee is indeede a Horse, and all other Iades you may call Beasts.
Dolph. i
Dolph. Const. In-
Dolph. The Life Of Henry The Fift.
Const. Const.
Const. Indeed my Lord, it is a most absolute and ex- cellent Horse.
Dolph. It is the Prince of Palfrayes, his Neigh is like the bidding of a Monarch, and his countenance enforces Homage.
Orleance. Orleance.
Orleance. No more Cousin.
Dolph. Nay, the man hath no wit, that cannot from the rising of the Larke to the lodging of the Lambe, varie deserued prayse on my Palfray: it is a Theame as fluent as the Sea: Turne the Sands into eloquent tongues, and my Horse is argument for them all: 'tis a subiect for a Soueraigne to reason on, and for a Soueraignes So- ueraigne to ride on: And for the World, familiar to vs, and vnknowne, to lay apart their particular Functions, and wonder at him, I once writ a Sonnet in his prayse, and began thus, Wonder of Nature.
Orleance. I haue heard a Sonnet begin so to ones Mi- stresse.
Dolph. Then did they imitate that which I compos'd to my Courser, for my Horse is my Mistresse.
Orleance. Your Mistresse beares well.