A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2

1. The Divell allready Is furling up the sayles; would all the sackes Which we have bought for _England_ were in _Devonshire_ Turnd to small Beere, so we were but in _Tavistocke...

_Ten_. Don _Fernando_, too, Hath cut our strength off, taken away our swords Should save our throates. I did preiudicate Too rashly of the _English_; now we may Yield up the Tow...

_Ma_. Run, good sweet _Timothy_; search the barnes, the stab[les], while I looke in the Chambers. Should she be lost or come to any harme my lady will hang us all. Why dost not...

The date of the play I take to be circ. 1640 or 1642. In I. 1 there is a mention of the "league at _Barwick_ and the late expeditions," where the reference can only be to Charle...

is a repetition of the idea in _Virgin Martyr_. On page 212 "Grave Maurice"; here "Grave" is Count Maurice, who is also so called in _Love's Cure_, I. 2. Bobadilla's speech. (_L...

The situation on page 219 has a striking resemblance to a similar scene with Cranmer in _Henry VIII_. Both Maurice and Cranmer are to be disgraced by being kept waiting outside...

On page 232, "This I foresaw," is also very common in similar situations. Among numerous cases I refer to the _Unnatural Combat_, Act III., about the end, and _Maid of Honour_,...

Fletcher's, who, as usual, spoiled Massinger's fine conception of Barnavelt, and makes him whine like Buckingham in _Henry VIII_. This moral collapse of all energy in the face o...

[132] Early Greek writers held up the Scythians as models of justice and simplicity (Iliad, xiii. 6, &c.). Clearchus (apud Athen., xii. 27) accuses them of cruelty, voluptuous l...