Blackadder vocabulary

Prince: Ah, Blackadder. It has been a wild afternoon full of strange omens. I dreamt that a large eagle circled the room three times and then got into bed with me and took all the blankets - and then I saw that it wasn't an eagle at all but a large black snake. Also Duncan's horses did turn and eat each other - as usual. Good portents for your duel, do you think?

BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Duel and Duality

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Rosse: And Duncan’s horses (a thing most strange and certain),

Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,

Turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,

Contending ’gainst obedience, as they would make

War with mankind.

Old Man: ’Tis said, they eat each other.