For swifter beasts be there none.
One I have, you shall see.
[42] In the Coventry plays Herod “rages in the pagond and in the streete also.”
To which the Third King replies:—
A dromodary in good faye
Will go lightly on his way
A hundred miles upon a day,
Such coursers now take we.
And then one MS. has the stage direction:—
“Then the Kinges go doune to the beasts and ride about.”[43]