[325] The 4to reads Enter or above Hugh, Winchester. Enter or above means, that they may either enter on the stage, or stand above on the battlements, as may suit the theatre. With regard to the names Hugh and Winchester, they are both wrong; they ought to be Hubert and Chester, who have been left by the king to keep good watch. When, too, afterwards Chester asks—
"What, Richmond, will you prove a runaway?"—
the answer in the old copy is—
"From thee, good Winchester? now, the Lord defend!"
It ought to be—
"From thee, good Chester? now the Lord defend!"
And it is clear that the measure requires it. The names throughout are very incorrectly given, and probably the printer composed from a copy in which some alterations had been made in the dramatis personae, but incompletely. Hence the perpetual confusion of Salisbury and Oxford.
[326] The scene changes from the outside to the inside of the castle.
[327] [Without muscle, though muscle and bristle are strictly distinct.]
[328] To tire is a term in falconry: from the Fr. tirer, in reference to birds of prey tearing what they take to pieces.