"Give me another horse,--bind up my wounds,-- Have mercy, Jesu!--Soft; I did but dream.-- O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!-- The lights burn blue!--Is it not dead midnight? Cold, fearful drops hang on my trembling flesh." [Illustration: GARRICK AS RICHARD III.] Such is the exclamation of Richard, and such is the disposition of his mind at the moment of this delineation. In character and expression of countenance the artist has succeeded, but in resemblance--he has failed. The features have no likeness to the features of Mr. Garrick, and the figure gives an idea of a larger and more muscular man. The lamp, diffusing a dim religious light through the tent, the crucifix placed at his head, the crown and unsheathed sword at his hand, and the armour lying on the ground, are judicious and appropriate accompaniments. His helmet is crested with _a boar passant_, the armorial ensign of his family. Near it lies a piece of paper, on which is written, "Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon thy master is bought and sold." This paper was put in the Duke of Norfolk's tent the night before the engagement; but not being brought to Richard until after the time represented in this scene, can only be admitted by that poetical licence which has been generally allowed to poets and painters. The figures in the distance, two of whom, "Like sacrifices by their fires of watch, With patience sit, and inly ruminate The morning's danger," are properly introduced, and highly descriptive. The tents of Richmond are so near, "That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch." Considered as a whole, the composition is simple, and the figures well drawn. The drapery illustrates his own precepts in the _Analysis_, where he says: "The robes of state are always made large and full, because they give a grandeur of appearance suitable to offices of the greatest distinction. The judges' robes have an awful dignity given them by the quantity of their contents; and when the train is held up, there is a noble waving line descending from the shoulders of the judge to the hand of his train-bearer. So, when the train is gently thrown aside, it generally falls into a great variety of folds, which again employ the eye, and fix its attention. "The grandeur of the Eastern dress, which so far surpasses the European, depends as much on quantity as costliness. In a word, it is quantity which adds greatness to grace."