Compare this with various passages (too familiar to quote) in the _Merchant of Venice_. The transference of the Rialto to Iberia was of a piece with the discovery of a sea-coast in Bohemia. In the same scene Andromana says to her lover, finding him reluctant to take his leave, almost in the very words of Romeo to Juliet, Then let us stand and outface danger, Since you will have it so. It was obvious that only the author of the one passage could have thought it necessary to disguise his plagiarism in the other by an inversion of sexes between the two speakers. In the same scene were three other indisputable instances of repetition. Mariners might with far greater ease Hear whole shoals of sirens singing. Compare _Comedy of Errors_, Act iii. Scene 2. Sing, siren, for thyself. In this case identity of sex was as palpable an evidence for identity of authorship as diversity of sex had afforded in the preceding instance. Again: Have oaths no _more validity_ with princes? In _Romeo and Juliet_, Act iii. Scene 3, the very same words were coupled in the very same order: _More validity_, More honourable state, more courtship lies In carrion flies than Romeo. Again: It would have killed a salamander. Compare the _First Part of King Henry IV_, Act iii. Scene 3. I have maintained that salamander of yours with fire any time this two and thirty years. In Act ii. Scene 2 the hero, on being informed how heavy are the odds against him in the field, answers, I am glad on't; the honour is the greater. To which his confidant rejoins: The danger is the greater. And in the sixth scene of the same act the messenger observes: I only heard the prince wish . . . . . . . He had fewer by a thousand men. Could any member doubt that we had here the same hand which gave us the like debate between King Henry and Westmoreland on the eve of Agincourt? or could any member suppose that in the subsequent remark of the same military confidant, "I smell a rat, sir," there was merely a fortuitous coincidence with Hamlet's reflection as he "whips out his rapier"--in itself a martial proceeding--under similar circumstances to the same effect? In the very next scene a captain observes of his own troops Methinks such tattered rogues should never conquer: