Orl. I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress.
Dau. Then did they imitate that which I composed to40
my courser, for my horse is my mistress.
Orl. Your mistress bears well.
Dau. Me well; which is the prescript praise and[5012]
perfection of a good and particular mistress.
Con. Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress[5013]45
shrewdly shook your back.
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 in50
your strait strossers.[5014]
Con. You have good judgement in horsemanship.
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.55