--to the very end, it abounds with Massingerisms: _Knowing judgment_; _Speak to the cause_; _I foresaw this_ (an especial favorite of the poet’s); _Strange boldness!_; the construction, _If that curses_, etc;--also cf. l. 117 ff. with _To undervalue him whose least fam’d service Scornes to be put in ballance with the best Of all your Counsailes._ (_Sir John van Olden B._, Bullen’s _Old Plays_, II, 232.) We have seen that the hand of Field has been asserted to appear in the last half of this Scene. This is probably due to the presence here of several rhymed couplets, which are uncommon in Massinger save as tags at the end of Scenes or of impressive speeches, but not absolutely unknown in his work; whereas Field employs them frequently--in particular to set off a gnomic utterance. If Field’s indeed, they can scarcely represent more than his revising touch here and there; everything else in this part of the Scene bespeaks Massinger no less clearly than does the portion which preceeds it. There continues the same stately declamation, punctuated at intervals by brief comments or replies, the same periodic sentence-structure, the same or even greater frequency of characteristic diction. Massinger again and again refers in his plays to the successive hardships of the summer’s heat and winter’s frost (l. 184--cf. C-G. 168 b, 205 a, 392 b, 488 b); _stand bound_ occurs literally scores of times upon his pages (three times on C-G. 77 a alone);--typical also are _in their dreadful ruins buried quick_ (l. 178--cf. C-G. 603 a, 625 a, _Sir John van Olden B._, Bullin’s _Old Plays_, II, 209), _Be constant in it_ (l. 196--cf. C-G. 2 a, 137 a, 237 a, 329 a), _Strange rashness!_, _It is my wonder_ (l. 293--cf. C-G. 26 b, 195 b; D. VIII, 438; XI, 34). Cf. also l. 156, _To quit the burthen of a hopeless life,_ with C-G. 615 b, _To ease the burthen of a wretched life._ And ll. 284-6, _But would you had Made trial of my love in anything But this,_ with C-G. 286 a, _I could wish you had Made trial of my love some other way._ And again, ll. 301-3, _and his goodness Rising above his fortune, seems to me, Princelike, to will, not ask, a courtesy._ with D. XI. 37, _in his face appears A kind of majesty which should command, Not sue for favour._ and the general likeness of l. 258 ff. with C-G. 44 b-45 a, as above noted. Nor do the verse tests reveal any break in the continuity of the Scene; the figures for the first part are: double endings, 45 per cent.; run-on lines, 33 per cent.--for the second part: double endings, 36 per cent.; run-on lines, 36 per cent.