LORD LACY. Honest Soul, With what feeling he receives it! Or this from _The Bashful Lover_, IV., 2, 87. ALONSO. She cause, alas! Her innocence knew no guilt, but too much favour. To me unworthy of it; ’twas my baseness, My foul ingratitude—what shall I say more? The good Octavio no sooner fell In the displeasure of his prince, his state Confiscated, and he forced to leave the Court, And she exposed to want; but all my oaths And protestation of service to her, Like seeming flames, raised by enchantment, vanish’d; This, this sits heavy here. _Cf._ also _City Madam_, I., 2,126-134. I feel inclined to say that Massinger knew _Henry VIII_ by heart. _Cf. infra_, pp. 84, 85. _ 94 The Two Noble Kinsmen_ is a remarkable play, full of fine poetry and lofty thought. On the other hand, its technique is very immature. The Gaoler’s daughter’s soliloquies are inartistic, and at times ludicrous. The play has at once the dignity of an early period and the complexity of style with which we are familiar in Shakspere’s later manner. One thing is clear: Act I. is by a different hand from the rest. Perhaps Shakspere and Fletcher touched up an old anonymous play. See, however, discussion _infra_, pp. 84-104. _ 95 Cf._ Appendix V. 96 Mr. Halliwell Philipps, in his MS. note to _Believe as You List_, now in the British Museum, expresses himself as sceptical of the Warburton legend. _Cf._ Greg’s _Bakings of Betsy_ (_Library_, July, 1911). 97 Shakspere, III., p. 275. _Cf._ Downes’ _Roscius Anglicanus_, pp. 18, 52. 98 Diary, 1848 edition, I., p. 192; IV., p. 373. 99 Gayley’s _Representative English Comedies_, p. 319. 100 Gifford’s edition of Massinger, in four volumes, is one of the classics of our literature, though careless in details. 101 To Hazlitt, however, we owe, in his estimate of Sir Giles Overreach, one of the most brilliant pieces of English prose that we possess. 102 (_E. D. L._, iii., p. 42) “In Massinger we seem to recognize a man who firmly believes in the eternal difference between right and wrong, and never consciously swerves aside from the canon he acknowledges.” _ 103 N. S. S._, xxvi., p. 586. _ 104 Iphigenia auf Tauris_, IV., 4: “Ich untersuche nicht, ich fühle nur.” 105 Dr. Bradley (_Oxford Lectures_, p. 383) points out that “the average play of Shakspere’s day has great merits of a strictly dramatic kind, but it is not ‘well-built,’ it is not what we mean by ‘a good play.’ ” He traces this fault to the multiplication of scenes, which the absence of scenery in those days made easy.