FALK
(ironisk).
Ja hvorfor slide pidsken eller sporen,
når ingen gylden indsats står som skænk
til den, der river sig fra bord og bænk
og jager fremad, båren højt i sadlen?
Slig færd for færdens skyld tilhører adlen,
og adelsfærd i vor tid kaldes tant;
så var nok meningen?
FALK
[ironically].
Yes, what’s the use of plying whip and spur
When there is not a penny of reward
For him who tears him from the festal board,
And mounts, and dashes headlong to perdition?
Such doing for the deed’s sake asks a knight,
And knighthood’s now an idle superstition.
That was your meaning, possibly?