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`` Had not my duty , your Grace 's commands , and his character as an envoy , restrained me , '' said Dunois , `` he should have tried to digest them himself ; for , by our Lady of Orleans , I had more mind to have made him eat his own words , than to have brought them to your Majesty . '' `` Body of me , '' said the King , `` it is strange that thou , one of the most impatient fellows alive , should have so little sympathy with the like infirmity in our blunt and fiery cousin , Charles of Burgundy . Why , man , I mind his blustering messages no more than the towers of this Castle regard the whistling of the northeast wind , which comes from Flanders , as well as this brawling Envoy . '' `` Know then , Sire , '' replied Dunois , `` that the Count of Crevecoeur tarries below , with his retinue of pursuivants and trumpets , and says , that since your Majesty refuses him the audience which his master has instructed him to demand , upon matters of most pressing concern , he will remain there till midnight , and accost your Majesty at whatever hour you are pleased to issue from your Castle , whether for business , exercise , or devotion ; and that no consideration , except the use of absolute force , shall compel him to desist from this . '' `` He is a fool , '' said the King , with much composure . `` Does the hot headed Hainaulter think it any penance for a man of sense to remain for twenty-four hours quiet within the walls of his Castle , when he hath the affairs of a kingdom to occupy him ? These impatient coxcombs think that all men , like themselves , are miserable , save when in saddle and stirrup .