"This night he make a supper, and a great one."--Act I. 3.
"Shrewd ones."--"Lame ones."--"_so_ great ones."--_Ibid._
"I had my trial,
And must needs say a noble one."--Act II. 1.
"A wife--a true one."--Act III. 1.
"They are a sweet society of fair ones."--Act I. 4.

Fletcher habitually uses "thousand" without the indefinite article, as in
the following instances:

"Carried before 'em thousand desolations."--_False One_, II. 9.
"Offers herself in thousand safeties to you."--_Rollo_, II. 1.
"This sword shall cut thee into thousand pieces."--_Knight of Malta_, IV.
2.

In _Henry VIII._ we have in the prologue:

"Of thousand friends."
"Cast thousand beams upon me."--Act IV. 2.

The use of the word "else" is peculiar in its position in Fletcher:--

"'Twere fit I were hang'd else."--_Rule a Wife_, II.
"I were to blame else."--_Ibid._
"I've lost me end else."--Act IV.
"I am wide else."--_Pilgrim_, IV. 1.

In _Henry VIII._, the word occurs in precisely the same position:--

"Pray God he do! He'll never know himself, else."--Act II. 2.
"I were malicious, else."--Act IV. 2.

{34} The peculiarly idiomatic expression "I take it" is of frequent
occurrence in Fletcher, as witness the following:--

"This is no lining for a trench, I take it."--_Rule a Wife_, III.
"And you have land i' th' Indies, as I take it."--_Ibid._ IV.
"A fault without forgiveness, as I take it."--_Pilgrim_, IV. 1.
"In noble emulation (so I take it)."--_Ibid._ IV. 2.

In one scene of _Henry VIII._, Act I. 3., the expression occurs twice: "One
would take it;" "There, I take it."

Of a peculiar manner of introducing a negative condition, one instance from
Fletcher, and one from _Henry VIII._ in reference to the same substantive,
though used in different senses, will suffice:

"All noble battles,
Maintain'd in thirst of honour, not of blood."--_Bonduca_, V. 1.
"And those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honour,
And by those claim their greatness, not by blood."--_Henry VIII._, V. 4.

Of a kind of parenthetical asseveration, a single instance, also, from each
will suffice:

"My innocent life (I dare maintain it, Sir)."--_Wife for a Month, IV. 1._
"A woman (I dare say, without vain glory)
Never yet branded with suspicion."--_Henry VIII., III. 1._

"A great patience," in _Henry VIII._, may be paralleled by