22 No doubt he knew some foreign languages. His plays come from various sources, French, Italian, and Spanish, some of which, however, had been translated into English. _The Renegado_ is traceable to a comedy of Cervantes, _Los Baños de Argel_, printed in 1615. _The Emperor of the East_ is derived from a French translation of Zonaras. If, which is doubtful, _The Duke of Milan_ owes anything to Guicciardini, his history had appeared in an English translation by Sir Geoffrey Fenton in 1579. Fleay has a curious theory that where French scenes are found in Fletcher they are due to Massinger. Much interesting information on the great debt which Fletcher and other dramatists owed to Spanish literature will be found in F. E. Schelling’s _Elizabethan Drama_, vol. ii., pp. 205-218 and 530. Schelling comes to the conclusion that Fletcher did not know Spanish; but he quotes an unpublished dictum of his friend Dr. Rosenbach, who holds it as certain that Massinger knew Spanish. _The Island Princess_ is based on a Spanish play, of which no translation is known, _Conquista de las islas Malucas_, by De Argensola, 1609. Rosenbach attributes the play to Massinger! It is clear, however, that a translation may have been in circulation from which Fletcher took his materials, or somebody may have seen the play acted in Spain, and reported it to him. Further, _Love’s Cure_ is based on the _Comedia de la Fuerza de la Costumbre_, by Guillen De Castro, licensed at Valencia, February 7th, 1625, and published three months later. Fletcher died in August, 1625, and Stiefel thinks that he read Spanish, and that this is his last work. Rosenbach and Bullen assign the play to Massinger (_cf._ Appendix III., No. 29). It is highly desirable that the grounds which led Rosenbach to believe that Massinger knew Spanish should be made public. 23 Lines 39-45 run thus: Let them write well that do this, and in grace. I would not for a pension or a place Part so with over candour: let me rather Live poorly on those toys I would not father; Not known beyond a player or a man, That does pursue the course that I have ran. Ere so grow famous. Lines 41-42 are interesting as seeming to hint that Massinger preferred to waive publicity as to his collaboration with Fletcher and others. The poem was published by A. B. Grosart in _Englische Studien_, xxvi., pp. 1-7, and will be found with the original spelling and punctuation in Appendix XVII.