Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640 -- Criticism and interpretation
My énd must bé to stánd in a córn^fíeld.
48. _The Picture_, II., 2, 286:
Í should fix hére, where bléssings beyónd^hópe.
49. _The Picture_, III., 2, 40:
They thánk’d the bríngers óf it. The póor^lády.
50. _The Picture_, III., 5, 161:
What cán you stáke against it. A quéen’s^fáme.
51. _The Picture_, IV., 4, 64:
If thís take nót, I am chéated. To slíp^ónce.
52. _The Picture_, V., 3, 11:
Befóre he góes to súpper. Ha! Is my hóuse^túrn’d.
(The fourth foot is u u u —.)
53. _The Picture_, V., 3, 40:
And néed no tútor. Thís is the gréat^kíng.
It will be noted that the rhythm often occurs in a broken line—_i.e._, a
line divided between two speakers. _Cf._ Nos. 7, 20, 36, 44, 50, 51, 52,
53. (_Cf._ also _The Emperor of the East_, I., 1, 342.)
_Cf._ _The False One_, I., 1:
What néarer plédges chállenge: résign^ráther.
_The False One_, V., 4:
The stóry óf a supréme^mónarchý.
_The Prophetess_, I., 3:
Chéerful and gráteful tákers the góds^lóve.
_The Prophetess_, I., 3:
Nor múst I revéal^fúrther, till you cléar it.
_The Prophetess_, III., 1:
For ládies of high^márk, for divíne^beáuties.
_The Lover’s Progress_, I., 1:
To Cúpid agáinst^Hýmen! Óh, mine hónour.
_The Fair Maid of the Inn_, I., 1:
A compléte^cóurtier! máy I livé to sée him.
_Thierry and Theodoret_, IV., 2:
Thou dóst throw chárms upón me, agáinst^whích.
_Thierry and Theodoret_, IV., 2:
Aṅd the place whére, the pálace, agáinst,^áll.
_Jew of Malta_, I., 2:
And extréme^tórtures óf the fíery déep.
_Dr. Faustus_, I., 1:
And Í that háve with concíse^sýllogísms.
_Nero_, I., 4:
O sevére^ánger óf the highest góds.
_Rule a Wife_, I., 1:
For thére I dáre be bóld to appéar^óften.
_The Maid in the Mill_, I., 3:
Now by’ the sóul of lóve, a divíne^créature.
_Henry VIII_, II., 1, 11:
I’ll téll you ín a líttle. The gréat^dúke.
I believe that many of the rhythms from Shakespeare quoted by Schmidt and
by Mr. R. Bridges in his “Milton’s Prosody,” can be explained in this way.
APPENDIX VII. “BELIEVE AS YOU LIST”
This play was edited by Mr. T. Crofton Croker, with a short Preface, in
the Percy Society’s Publications, Vol. XXVII., 1849. The Tudor Society has
published a photographic facsimile of the MS., now in the British Museum
(Egerton MSS., 2828). _Cf._ B.M. Catalogue of Additions, 1907, p. 384. The
MS. was purchased for the Museum at a sale on November 27, 1900, for £69.
It is of paper. The original document, measuring 12-1/2 inches by 7-1/2
inches, comprises folios 5 to 29; folios 2 and 3 are the old vellum cover.
Mr. Croker’s account of the MS. (Pref., p. ix) runs as follows:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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