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156 dear. This is probably a misprint for 'dread,' the reading of the Quarto.

you should bear me on your shoulders. The boy clearly is referring to Richard's deformity. Court jesters sometimes carried apes on their shoulders, and travelling showmen often led about with them at country fairs a bear and an ape, the ape on the bear's back. The speech, therefore, as Buckingham points out, is far from complimentary, in whatever sense the reference to the ape is meant. Cf. Much Ado about Nothing, II. i. 42–44: 'I will even take sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his apes into hell.' See also Autolycus' description of his imaginary robber, Winter's Tale, IV. ii. 101.

The Quarto completes the line by reading 'needs will have it so.'

Sennet. A set flourish of trumpets, used to mark a royal progress.

as it were far off, sound thou Lord Hastings. ' the protector and the duke of Buckingham made verie good semblance vnto the lord Hastings. And vndoubtedlie the protector loued him well, and loth was to haue lost him, sauing for feare least his life should haue quailed their purpose. For which cause he mooued Catesbie to prooue with some words cast out a farre off, whether he could thinke it possible to win the lord Hastings vnto their part.' Holinshed, iii. 722. More, 45/3.

Mistress Shore. She became the mistress of Lord Hastings after the death of Edward IV.

The earldom of Hereford, and all the moveables Whereof the king my brother was possess'd. ' it was agreed that the protector should grant him the quiet possession of the earldome of Hereford, which he claimed as his inheritance. Besides these requests of the duke, the protector, of his owne mind, promised him a great quantitie of