_Retreat_, or _A Retreat sounded_, generally with Alarum, or
Excursions, or with both.
_Retreat_ by itself occurs only three times, but in company with
Alarums and [or] Excursions may be found in 16 other places. The whole
19 cases occur in eleven plays.
The word explains itself. The actual notes of a Retreat of
Shakespeare's time are not known.
In the text it has the same meaning.
_H. 6. A._ II, ii, 3. 'Here sound retreat, and cease our hot pursuit.'
_H. 6. B._ IV, viii, 4. 'Dare any be so bold to sound retreat or
parley, when I command them kill'?
_H. 4. A._ V, iv, 159. 'The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours.'
_H. 5._ III, ii, 89. _Macmorris_, 'the work ish give over, the trumpet
sound the retreat.'
_March, Dead March._
There are 18 marches provided for altogether; 4 are Dead Marches; 3
National--viz., English, French, and Danish; and 11 ordinary military
marches.
Probably all are identified with _Drums_, without any other
instruments. For the three national marches, see _H. 6. A._ III, iii,
30 and 33 [Transcriber's Note: Added missing scene number], and
_Hamlet_ III, ii, 91.
Hawkins gives (Hist., p. 229) the text of a Royal Warrant of Charles
I., ordering the revival of the ancient 'march of this our English
nation, so famous in all the honourable achievements and glorious wars
of this our kingdome in forraigne parts [being by the approbation of
strangers themselves confest and acknowledged the best of all
marches].
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