A. H. B. agrees that the play is due to Massinger and Middleton. Fleay thinks that Massinger altered a play by Beaumont and Fletcher. A. H. C.: It is to be noted that the Prologue expressly attributes the play to Beaumont and Fletcher. I find nothing like Massinger except a few touches in Act I., 1 and 3. The lightheartedness of the play reminds us alike of Fletcher and Middleton; the romantic atmosphere reminds us of the former, the inferiority of the metre of the latter. 23. _The Fatal Dowry._ (Massinger and Field.) M.: Act I.; Act III. (to “Enter Novall junior”); Act IV., 2, 3, 4; Act V., 1, 2. For further discussion _cf._ Appendix XI. 24. _The Virgin Martyr._ (Massinger and Dekker.) M.: Act I.; Act III., 1, 2; Act IV., 3; Act V., 2. For a discussion of this verdict _cf._ Appendix X. 25. _The Old Law._ (Massinger, Middleton, Rowley.) Massinger’s share was slight, and can only have consisted in revision for a later performance. _Cf._ supra, pp. 141-2. OTHER PLAYS ATTRIBUTED IN PART TO MASSINGER. 26. _The Laws of Candy._ A. H. B. thinks a large part was written by Massinger, and that Fletcher cannot be traced. Boyle (_Eng. Stud._, vii. 75) thinks that though the metrical treatment is like Beaumont’s, the play is evidently later in date, perhaps due to Shirley. Fleay (_Eng. Stud._, ix. 23) assigns it to Massinger and Field. Macaulay says “probably by Massinger and another author (not Fletcher).” A. H. C.: I find no trace here of the Massinger that we know. 27. _The Captain._ Macaulay: “By Fletcher and another, perhaps Massinger.” A. H. C.: This is one of the many plays in the Fletcher corpus which begins admirably and falls away into improbability. I find no trace of Massinger here, though the incident in Act IV., 5 reminds one of the banquet in _The Guardian_, Act III., 6. 28. _The Cure for a Cuckold_, “a pleasant comedy written by John Webster and William Rowley; London, 1661.” It has been supposed by Fleay that the first act is due to Massinger. It must be pointed out that a large part of the play is written in prose, and that the verse parts are not like Massinger. If one or two phrases remind us of his style the stage is too crowded to make it likely that it is his design. The real reason, no doubt, for the assumption is that the incident of Clare and Lessingham is similar to one in _The Parliament of Love_. Clare sends a letter to Lessingham in which she tells him she will marry him if he will kill his dearest friend. Prove all thy friends, find out the best and nearest, Kill for my sake that friend that loves thee dearest. But even so the incident is worked out with much variety in detail.