In one scene of _Henry VIII._, Act I. 3., the expression occurs twice: "One would take it;" "There, I take it." Of a peculiar manner of introducing a negative condition, one instance from Fletcher, and one from _Henry VIII._ in reference to the same substantive, though used in different senses, will suffice: "All noble battles, Maintain'd in thirst of honour, not of blood."--_Bonduca_, V. 1. "And those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour, And by those claim their greatness, not by blood."--_Henry VIII._, V. 4. Of a kind of parenthetical asseveration, a single instance, also, from each will suffice: "My innocent life (I dare maintain it, Sir)."--_Wife for a Month, IV. 1._ "A woman (I dare say, without vain glory) Never yet branded with suspicion."--_Henry VIII., III. 1._ "A great patience," in _Henry VIII._, may be paralleled by "a brave patience," in _The Two Noble Kinsmen_: and the expression "aim at," _occurring at the close of the verse_ (as, by the bye, almost all Fletcher's peculiarities do) as seen in Act III. 1., "Madam, you wander from the good we aim at," is so frequently to be met with in Fletcher, that, having noted four instances in the _Pilgrim_, three in the _Custom of the Country_, and four in the _Elder Brother_, I thought I had found more than enough. Now, Sir, on reading _Henry VIII._, and meeting with each of these instances, I felt that I remembered "the trick of that voice;" and, without having at present by me any means for reference, I feel confident that of the commonest examples not so many can be found among all the rest of the reputed plays of Shakspeare, as in _Henry VIII._ alone, or rather in those parts of _Henry VIII._ which I reject as Shakspeare's; while of the more remarkable, I think I might challenge the production of a single instance. My original intention in the present paper was merely to call attention to a few such expressions as the foregoing; but I cannot resist the impulse to quote one or two parallels of a different character:-- _Henry VIII._: "The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her!"--Act IV. 2. Fletcher: "The dew of sleep fall gently on you, sweet one!"--_Elder Brother_, IV. 3. "Blessings from heaven in thousand showers fall on ye!"--_Rollo_, II. 3. "And all the plagues they can inflict, I wish it, Fall thick upon me!"--_Knight of Malta_, III. 2. _Henry VIII._: "To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms."--Act III. 2. Fletcher: "My long-since-blasted hopes shoot out in blossoms."--_Rollo_, II. 3.