_Virgin Martyr_, _The_, 3, 18, 20, 24, 31, 32, 33, 46, 47 _n._ 3, 62, 72, 73, 81, 120, 123, 142, 149, App. X. Vocabulary of M., 106 W Warburton, 23, App. V. Ward, Sir A., 25, 65 _n._ 1, 110 Warner, Sir G. F., 177 Weber, 21 _n._ 6 Webster, 5, 29 _n._ 2, 111-113, 159 _Wit and Fancy in a Maze_, 77 _n._ 3 Z Zielinski, 50 FOOTNOTES 1 It is much to be wished that someone would essay the same task for Beaumont and Fletcher, though there the work would be less easy, partly from the looseness of the metres, partly from the corruption of the text, but chiefly from the presence of prose-passages bordering on verse. 2 A. à Wood’s _Fasti Oxonienses_, p. 313. 3 Herein he resembled F. Beaumont. G. Langbaine, on the other hand, says that the Earl sent Massinger to Oxford, where he “closely pursued his studies.” But we must be careful how we believe Langbaine; his account of our poet begins thus: “This author was born at Salisbury, in the reign of King Charles the First, being son to Philip Massinger, a gentleman belonging to the Earl of Montgomery.” Here are three gross blunders at once. 4 Boyle (_N. S. S._, xxi., p. 472) says that “Massinger’s inveterate habit of repeating himself arose probably from his profession as an actor.” I know of no evidence for this hypothesis. _Cf._, however, p. 6, note 1. _ 5 Cf._ Mommsen’s _History of Rome_, English translation, vol. ii., p. 440. 6 Thus in the play of _Lady Jane_, of which _The Famous History of Sir T. Wyatt_ is a fragment, we find five authors concerned. It will be remembered that Eupolis contributed to the _Knights_ of Aristophanes. 7 For some account of Field see Appendix XI. 8 Daborne’s letters bulk large in the Henslowe Correspondence. We have two plays of his: _A Christian turn’d Turke_, based on the story of the pirate Ward; and _The Poor Man’s Comfort_, a tragi-comedy. Like Marston, he abandoned the stage in middle life and took orders, before 1618. It is therefore unlikely that he collaborated with Massinger in any of the plays which we possess. 9 Such a reference to _Acta Sanctorum_ as is contained in these lines might be made by an Anglican: ANTONINUS. It may be, the duty And loyal service, with which I pursued her, And sealed it with my death, will be remember’d Among her blessed _actions_.—_V. M._, IV., 3, 28. More stress might be laid on the metaphor contained in these lines: THEOPHILUS. O! mark it, therefore, and with that attention, As you would hear an embassy from heaven, _By a wing’d legate_.—_V. M._, V., 2, 103.