EUPHANES. To shew the passive fortitude the best. And _Lover’s Progress_, IV., 4: ALCIDON. With all care put on The surest armour, anvil’d in the shop Of passive fortitude. This point is emphasized in Swinburne’s excellent sonnet on Massinger. 438 IV., 2, 17-31, where Charalois declares, “I never was an enemy to ’t [_i.e._, music], Beaumont,” and ends by saying: “I love it to the worth of ’t and no further.” 439 I., 1. _ 440 Cf._ also V., 2, 130-37. 441 IV., 2, 1-14. 442 Massinger has some notable compound epithets from time to time; take as examples, “pale-cheek’d stars” in _Parliament of Love_, IV., 2, 61; “on black-sail’d wings of loose and base desires,” _Parliament of Love_, V., 1, 215; “Such is my full-sail’d confidence in her virtue,” _Picture_, II., 2, 318; “the brass-leaved book of fate,” _Believe as You List_, I., 2, 136. “Your must and will Shall in your full-sailed confidence deceive you,” _A Very Woman_, II., 2, 21. 443 We find not a few assonances and alliterations in Massinger, generally contained in two words: _Emperor of the East_, I., 2, 16, “gallows and galleys”; (_Cf. Renegado_, V., 2, 162, “the gallies or the gallows,” and Webster’s _White Devil_, p. 11a); _Believe as You List_, Prologue 14, “toss’d and turned”; _A New Way_, I., 1, 109, “sue and send”; _Emperor of the East_, IV., 1, 37, “sway and swing” (so in _Great Duke of Florence_, II., 2, 46); _Fatal Dowry_, IV., 1, 193, “confessor and confounder”; _Old Law_, III., 2, 45, “die and dye”; _ibid._, 157, “venues in Venice glasses”; IV., 1, 61, “Siren and Hiren”; _City Madam_, I., 1, 36, “hole and hell”; V., 2, 77, “lords or lowns”; _Guardian_, I., 1, 60, “house and home”; II., 2, 23, “board and bed”; II., 5, 46, “fair and free”; III., 5, 76, “page or porter”; _Picture_, IV., 1, 65, “horns and horror”; _Bondman_, II., 1, 119, “hell and horror”; _Roman Actor_, I., 4, 63, “graced and greased”; II., 1, 376, “carke and caring”; _Renegado_, III., 4, 54, “toss and touse”; _Parliament of Love_, II., 1, 8, “tractable and tactable”; _Duke of Milan_, III., 1, 199, “palm or privilege”; III., 2, 46, “curvet or caper.” _ 444 Cf._ Johnson’s Preface to Shakspere (p. 19), “A quibble is to Shakspere what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.” The whole paragraph is worth reading. _ 445 A New Way_, I., 3, 22; II., 1, 31, etc. The repetition of Graccho’s name in _Duke of Milan_, V., 1, is intentional and effective. _Cf._ Kitely’s repetition of “Thomas” in _Every Man in His Humour_, III., 2; “Sir Michael” in _1 Henry IV_, IV., 4, and “Sir Thomas” in _Henry VIII_, V., 1.