_ 136 Hours in a Library_, ii., p. 171. Leslie Stephen elsewhere (pp. 167-171) does justice to Massinger’s “romantic tendency.” “The chivalrous ideal of morality involves a reverence for women which may be exaggerated or affected, but which has at least a genuine element in it. The same vein of chivalrous sentiment gives a fine tone to some of Massinger’s other plays; to _The Bondman_, for example, and _The Great Duke of Florence_, in both of which the treatment of lovers’ devotion shows a higher sense of the virtue of feminine dignity and purity than is common in the contemporary stage.” _ 137 The Virgin Martyr_, IV., 3, 72-92. _Cf. Believe As You List_, IV., 2, 183-204. 138 I., 1, 103-114. The whole play exhibits this element of grace more than any other of our author. It should be acted by Lysis and Charicles, Glaucon and Adeimantus. 139 IV., 3, 175. It is to be noted that great courtesy is observed and expected in greetings and leave-takings in Massinger’s plays. Thus in _The Virgin Martyr_, II., 2, Macrinus gets into trouble for the curtness of his salutation; similarly, Wellborn in _A New Way_, V., 1, 114. Compare also _Roman Actor_, IV., 1, 67; _A Very Woman_, I., l, 147. 140 I., 1, 246. 141 I., 2, 36. 142 II., 2, 71. 143 I., 1, 77. 144 IV., 2, 96. 145 III., 2, 92. 146 V., 2, 51. 147 I., 2, 162-175. 148 II., 3, 28-32. 149 I., 2, 136-141. 150 IV., 2, 46. 151 I., 2, 17. 152 I., 5, 44. The longest series of parentheses in Massinger is to be found in Cardenes’ speech in _A Very Woman_ (I., 1, 240-256). For clumsy periods see _Fatal Dowry_, IV., 2, 99-104; V., 2, 23-34; _Roman Actor_, IV., 2, 123-128. _ 153 Our Debt to Antiquity_, Eng. trans, by Strong and Stewart, p. 75. 154 It is needless to say how common this idiom is in Shakspere, Webster, Shirley, and other authors of the period. I only mention it because it lends itself in a peculiar way to the suppleness of Massinger’s style. 155 I., 1, 18-32. 156 I., 3, 339. 157 V., 1, 25. 158 III., 3, 4. 159 V., 2, 22. _ 160 Contemporaries of Shakespeare_, p. 183. Though I do not accept all Mr. Swinburne’s estimates, I am at once pleased and humiliated at the thought that he has expressed so much better than myself many of my conclusions about Massinger. 161 V., 1, 51. 162 III., 1, 302. _ 163 The Renegado_, III., 1, 30-39. 164 Oliphant (_Englische Studien_, xiv., 60) notes this feature as Fletcherian. 165 Boyle, _N. S. S._, Trans., p. 378. _ 166 Op. cit._, p. 403. _ 167 E. S._, vii. 70. _ 168 N. S. S._, xxvi. 584. The “run-on” line ends with a preposition or other word which syntactically requires the next line. Take as an example _Fatal Dowry_, V., 2, 255: