“There are a good many expressions in common between _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ and Massinger.”(359) This is the really serious argument; but let me repeat that similarity of thought and expression in isolated phrases does not prove unity of authorship. Let us, however, look at some of these parallels. Reference is twice made in _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ to “the wheaten garland” of brides.(360) Massinger refers to “the garland” of a bridegroom in three passages.(361) I fail to see the connexion. Notice also that Massinger does not use the epithet “wheaten” in these passages. Theseus says, “Troubled I am,” and turns away.(362) It was quite natural that he should think twice before postponing his wedding. Boyle compares a passage where Ladislas is in uncertainty(363): I am much troubled, And do begin to stagger. People in Massinger’s plays are often perplexed, and so they are in real life. Note that Theseus ends his remark with these words at the beginning of a line. When Massinger’s characters are in perplexity their way of expressing themselves is quite different; it is more full and rounded off. Theseus says: “Forward to the temple,”(364) being anxious to be married. “Similar words in similar situations occur in Massinger.”(365) In neither case, however, is it a bridegroom who speaks. _The Two Noble Kinsmen_, I., 165, 166: 1ST QUEEN. And that work presents itself to th’ doing; Now ’twill take form, the heats are gone to-morrow. Boyle says this is obscure, but can be explained by _Empress of the East_: That resolution which grows cold to-day Will freeze to-morrow.(366) The thought is a familiar one; and can anyone suppose that Massinger wrote line 165? The expression “our undertaker”(367) recalls a word used by Shakspere.(368) Massinger also has it twice;(369) the parallel is interesting, but the word was a cant political term of Jacobean times. The fact that apes imitate is referred to in these lines:(370) ’Tis in our own power— Unless we fear that apes can tutor’s—to Be masters of our manners. In _The Emperor of the East_ we find: You are master of the manners and the habit, Rather the scorn of such as would live men, And not, like apes, with servile imitation Study prodigious fashions.(371) Surely there is no need to assume common authorship here. The imitative ape has been common property for a long time. A peculiarity of a sick man is referred to, thus: I must no more believe thee in this point Than I will trust a sickly appetite, That loathes even as it longs.(372) Massinger in _A Very Woman_ has: No more of Love, good father, It was my surfeit, and I loathe it now, As men in fevers meat they fall sick on.(373) The simile is a part of ordinary experience and literary convention. You might as well argue that Massinger wrote _Euphues_. The jailer’s daughter leaves the scene with this remark: