Act 1 — 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.