It is very certain that Marston could never have written single-handed so rich and genial a play. In all Marston's comedies there is a strong alloy of bitterness; we are never allowed to rise from the comic feast with a pleasant taste in the mouth. What precise share Marston had in _Eastward Ho_ it would be difficult to determine with any approach to certainty. In the very first scene (vol. iii. p. 8) we come across a passage which is distinctly in Marston's manner:-- "I am entertained among gallants, true; they call me cousin Frank, right; I lend them monies, good; they spend it well." Compare a passage of _The Fawn_ (vol. ii. p. 181):-- "His brother your husband, right; he cuckold his eldest brother, true; he get her with child, just." But in the same opening scene there are equally unmistakable signs of Jonson's presence. Touchstone says of Golding:--"He is a gentleman, though my prentice ...; well friended, _well parted_." The curious expression "_well parted_" will be at once recognised as Jonsonian by the vigilant reader, who will remember how Macilente, in "The Characters of the Persons" prefixed to _Every Man out of his Humour_,[21] is described as "A man _well parted_, a sufficient scholar," &c. Jonson and Marston worked on the first scene together; and it seems to me that throughout the first two acts we have the mixed work of these two writers. In the second scene of the third act, as Mr. Swinburne notices, Chapman's hand is clearly seen in the quaint allusion to "the ship of famous Draco." Quicksilver's moralising, in iv. 1, after he has scrambled ashore at Wapping on the night of the drunken shipwreck, is again in Chapman's manner; but his elaborate devices for blanching copper and sweating angels (later in the same scene) must, without the shadow of a doubt, be ascribed to the invention of the author of _The Alchemist_. It would be of doubtful advantage to pursue the inquiry at length. _Eastward Ho_ was revived at Drury Lane on Lord Mayor's day 1751, under the title of _The Prentices_ (n. d. 12mo), and again in 1775 under the title of _Old City Manners_. Hogarth is said to have drawn from _Eastward Ho_ the plan of his prints _The Industrious and Idle Prentices_. Nahum Tate's farce _Cuckold's Haven_, published in 1685, is drawn partly from _Eastward Ho_ and partly from _The Devil is an Ass_.