'T was he reduc'd Evadne from her scorn, And taught the sad Aspatia how to mourn; Gave Arethusa's love a glad relief; And made Panthea elegant in grief. We now know, from the application of metrical and rhetorical tests, that but a small part of each of the plays here alluded to was written by Fletcher. If D'Avenant has attributed to Fletcher in these cases plays of which the larger part was written by Beaumont, he was but consistent in error when he ascribed to Fletcher _The Woman-Hater_, in which there is very little that betrays resemblance to Fletcher's style. If, on the other hand, D'Avenant in the verses quoted above intended to attribute to Fletcher merely individual scenes of _The Maides Tragedy_, etc., he must have had a knowledge of the respective authorship of the dramatists hardly to be reconciled with the palpable mistake of assigning _The Woman-Hater_ to Fletcher. For, by an odd coincidence, he has indicated in the first and second verses two[186] of the five scenes of _The Maides Tragedy_, and in the third, two[187] of the five scenes of _Philaster_ which our modern criticism has proved to be Fletcher's. The reference in the fourth line is more vague; but it has the merit of indicating the only scene of _A King and No King_[188] in which, according to our critical tests, Fletcher has contributed to the characterization of Panthea. With regard to _The Woman-Hater_, it would appear that D'Avenant was carelessly following the mistaken ascription of authorship on the title-page of the quarto of 1648.