Note 908 — SCENE II.

tread] A friend would read “thread,”—with an allusion to the sport called Running at the Ring, when the tilter, riding at full speed, endeavoured to thrust the point of his lance through, and to bear away, the ring, which was suspended at a fixed height. But the text is quite right. G. Markham gives particular directions how to make a horse tread the ring—i. e. perform various movements in different directions within a ring marked out on a piece of ground: see Cheape and good Husbandry, &c., p. 18, sqq. ed. 1631.