How Angels (cloyster'd in our humane Cells) Maintaine their parley, Beaumont-Fletcher tels: Whose strange, unimitable Intercourse Transcends all Rules. A second, the dominant view in 1647, was that "the plays were to be accredited to Fletcher alone, since Beaumont was not to be taken into serious account in explaining their production." This opinion is expressed by Waller, who, referring not only to the plays of that folio (in only two of which Beaumont appears) but to others like _The Maides Tragedy_ and _The Scornful Ladie_ in which, undoubtedly, Beaumont cooperated, says: Fletcher, to thee wee do not only owe All these good Playes, but those of others, too; ... No Worthies form'd by any Muse but thine, Could purchase Robes to make themselves so fine; and by Hills, who writes,--"upon the Ever-to-be-admired Mr. John Fletcher and his Playes,"-- "Fletcher, the King of Poets! such was he, That earn'd all tribute, claim'd all soveraignty." The third view was--still to follow Miss Hatcher--that "Fletcher was the genius and creator in the work, and Beaumont merely the judicial and regulative force." Cartwright in his two poems of 1647, as I have already pointed out, emphasizes this view: Though when all Fletcher writ, and the entire Man was indulged unto that sacred fire, His thoughts and his thoughts dresse appeared both such That 't was his happy fault to do too much; Who therefore wisely did submit each birth To knowing Beaumont ere it did come forth; Working againe, until he said 't was fit And made him the sobriety of his wit; Though thus he call'd his Judge into his fame, And for that aid allow'd him halfe the name, 'T is knowne that sometimes he did stand alone, That both the Spunge and Pencill were his owne; That himselfe judged himselfe, could singly do, And was at last Beaumont and Fletcher too. A similar view is implied by Dryden, when, in his _Essay of Dramatick Poesie_, 1668, he attributes the regularity of their joint-plots to Beaumont's influence; and reports that even "Ben Jonson while he lived submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots."