RICHARD. Don't be afraid.

They shake hands on it.

ESSIE (calling to them). They're coming back. They want you.

Jubilation in the market. The townsfolk surge back again in wild
enthusiasm with their band, and hoist Richard on their shoulders,
cheering him.

CURTAIN.



NOTES TO THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE

BURGOYNE

General John Burgoyne, who is presented in this play for the
first time (as far as I am aware) on the English stage, is not a
conventional stage soldier, but as faithful a portrait as it is
in the nature of stage portraits to be. His objection to profane
swearing is not borrowed from Mr. Gilbert's H. M. S. Pinafore: it
is taken from the Code of Instructions drawn up by himself for
his officers when he introduced Light Horse into the English
army. His opinion that English soldiers should be treated as
thinking beings was no doubt as unwelcome to the military
authorities of his time, when nothing was thought of ordering a
soldier a thousand lashes, as it will be to those modern victims