Here we have blank verse, distinctively Fletcherian with its feminine endings and its end-stopped lines. But, widely as this differs from the earlier rhythm of _The Faithfull Shepheardesse_ and its more lyric precipitancy, the qualities of tone and diction are in the later play as in the earlier. The alliterations may not be so numerous, and are in general more cunningly concealed and interwoven, as in lines 2 to 4; but the cruder kind still appears as a mannerism, the "fire and fierceness," "hopes," "hang," and "head." The iterations of word, phrase, and rhetorical question, and of the resonant "all," the redundant nouns in apposition, the tautological enumeration of categories, proclaim the unaltered Fletcher. The adjectives are in this spot pruned, but they are luxuriant elsewhere in the play. The triplets,--"this man, my son, this nature,"--"admit," "admit," "admit," find compeers on nearly every page: Shew where to lead, to lodge, to charge with safetie,--[163] Here's a strange fellow now, and a brave fellow, If we may say so of a pocky fellow.--[164] And now, 't is ev'n too true, I feel a pricking, A pricking, a strange pricking.--[165] With such a sadness on his face, as sorrow, Sorrow herself, but poorly imitates. Sorrow of sorrows on that heart that caus'd it![166] In the passages cited above there happen to be, also, a few examples of the elocutionary afterthought: You come with thunders in your mouth _and earthquakes_,-- As arrows from a Tartar's bow, _and speeding_.-- To this device, and to the intensive use of the pronominal "one" Fletcher is as closely wedded as to the repetition of "all,"-- They have a hand upon us, A heavy and a hard one.[167] To wear this jewel near thee; he is a tried one And one that ... will yet stand by thee.[168] Other plays conceded by the critics to Fletcher alone, and written in his distinctive blank verse, display the same characteristics of style: _The Chances_ of about 1615, _The Loyall Subject_ of 1618 (like _The Humorous Lieutenant_ of the middle period), and _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_ of the last period, 1624. I quote at random for him who would apply the tests,--first from _The Chances_,[169] the following of the repeating revolver style: Art thou not an Ass? And modest as her blushes! what a blockhead Would e're have popt out such a dry Apologie For this dear friend? and to a Gentlewoman, A woman of her youth and delicacy? They are arguments to draw them to abhor us. An honest moral man? 't is for a Constable: A handsome man, a wholesome man, a tough man, A liberal man, a likely man, a man Made up by Hercules, unslaked with service: The same to night, to morrow night, the next night, And so to perpetuity of pleasures.