“Methought, their souls, whose bodies Richard murder’d,
Came to my tent, and ‘cried on’ victory.”
To “cry havoc” appears to have been a signal for indiscriminate slaughter. The expression, “Cry havoc, kings!” occurs in King John, Act ii. Sc. 2; and again in Julius Cæsar, Act iii. Sc. 1:—
“Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.”
In Coriolanus (Act iii. Sc. 1), Menenius says—
“Do not cry Havoc, where you should but hunt
With modest warrant.”
[49.] Salvin and Brodrick, “Falconry in the British Islands.”
[50.] His “bow,” that is, his “yoke.” Some editions read “low;” an evident mistake.
[51.] Compare, ante, [pp. 57–59], “I’d whistle her off,” &c.