Note 216 — ACT IV. SCENE I.

we have Siren here ... ’twas Hiren, the fair Greek] In Shakespeare’s Henry IV., Part II. Act ii. Sc. 4., Pistol exclaims, “have we not Hiren here?” and the same (or nearly the same) words occur in several other old plays. They seem to be a quotation from a (now-lost) drama by Peele, called The Turkish Mahomet and Hiren the Fair Greek. See the commentators on the passage of Shakespeare just cited, and my Account of Peele, &c. p. xxxv., prefixed to his Works, sec. ed.