Limit each leader to his seuerall charge,
And part in iust proportion our small strength,
Come, let vs consult vpon to morrowes busines,
In to our tent, the aire is rawe and cold.’
As the Quartos omit entirely lines 27, 28 and 43, we have followed the arrangement of the Folios.
NOTE XXIV.
[V. 3. 145.] In the first and second Quartos the Ghosts of the two young Princes enter and speak before the Ghost of Hastings. The Folios and the other Quartos make the Ghost of Hastings enter first. As a chronological order is observed in the appearance of the other Ghosts we have thought it best in this case to follow the latter authorities.
This discrepancy between the two earliest editions and the rest seems to have escaped the notice of Capell and of all other editors.
NOTE XXV.
[V. 3. 179.] Warburton says: The players, among their other innumerable absurdities, in the representation of this tragedy, make Richard say instead of ‘O coward conscience,’ ‘O tyrant conscience!’