Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640 -- Criticism and interpretation
_A Trick_, IV., 4: Hoard’s anticipations of his future pomp may have
suggested the thoughts which Sir Giles entertains about his
daughter’s future estate when married to Lord Lovel.
_Cf._ _A New Way_, IV., 3, 130-141.
_A Trick_, IV., 5:
SIR LAUNCELOT. I would entreat your worship’s device in a just and
honest cause, sir.
DAMPIT. I meddle with no such matters.
_A New Way_, II., 1, 23:
OVERREACH. The other wisdom,
That does prescribe us a well-governed life,
And to do right to others, as ourselves,
I value not an atom.
583 Compare the way in which Massinger, in _The Great Duke of Florence_,
transfers to Italy _A Knacke to Know a Knave_. (Hazlitt’s _Dodsley_,
vi.)
584 Lines in another hand inserted in a space left blank at the top of
p. 555.
585 Marginal note in a third hand.
_ 586 I.e._, precedents.
587 To take.
588 In the Malone copy in the Bodleian line 23 has disappeared, and at
the end of line 22 rather less of the letters is preserved than at
the beginning.
589 The misprint is in the original.
590 Add references in Letters, edited by C. Ainger, vol. i., pp. 23, 24,
136, 154.
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