And end that race
You have so long run strongly, like a child,

is a repetition of the idea in _Virgin Martyr_. On page 212 "Grave
Maurice"; here "Grave" is Count Maurice, who is also so called in
_Love's Cure_, I. 2. Bobadilla's speech. (_Love's Cure_ is by Massinger
and another author, not Fletcher.)

Page 213.

The desire of glory
Was the last frailty wise men ere put off.

This occurs again in _A Very Woman_, V. 4, line 10,--

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness
Wise men put off.

Though the thought occurs in Tacitus and Simplicius, Milton seems to
have adopted it, as he has done many other of his most striking
passages from Massinger. It occurs also in at least one other play of
Massinger's, but the passage has escaped me for the moment.

Same page:--

'Tis like yourself,
Like Barnavelt, and in that all is spoken.

An expression which, with a slight change from "spoken" to
"comprehended," occurs in almost every one of Massinger's plays.

Act I. Scene 2, is also by Massinger. On page 218,--

We need not add this wind by our observance
To sails too full already.

This reminds us of the common Massinger simile,--

Too large a sail for your small bark.

And _Virg. Mar_., I. 1. 85,--

You pour oil
On fire that burns already at the height.

Both similes occur in almost all Massinger's plays.

The situation on page 219 has a striking resemblance to a similar scene
with Cranmer in _Henry VIII_. Both Maurice and Cranmer are to be
disgraced by being kept waiting outside while their enemies were at
Council. I cannot help here repeating what I have expressed before, that
_Henry VIII_. as we have it is not the work of Shakespeare and Fletcher,
but of Massinger and Fletcher, with only fragments of the Shakespeare
play.

Act I. Scene 3, is by Fletcher.

Act II. Scene 1, is by Massinger.

On page 231 we have,--

When the hot lyon's breath
Burns up the fields.

Compare _Parliament of Love_, I. 5., Montrose,--

When the hot lion's breath singeth the fields.

A little lower down, "At all parts" occurs in almost every play of
Massinger.

On page 232, "This I foresaw," is also very common in similar
situations. Among numerous cases I refer to the _Unnatural Combat_, Act
III., about the end, and _Maid of Honour_, II. iii., where exactly the
same word