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138 these women pages in it, following in the train of some pre-engaged lover.'

69. 10. Mr. Dyce, in his excellent edition of Beaumont and Fletcher (1844), enumerates the following plays as certainly, or almost certainly, the joint work of the two: — Philaster. The Maid's Tragedy. The Knight of the Burning Pestle. King and no King. Cupid's Revenge. The Coxcomb. Four Plays in One. The Scornful Lady. The Honest Man's Fortune. The Little French Lawyer. Wit at several Weapons. The Laws of Candy. Three others—Wit without Money, The Custom of the Country, and Bonduca—he is disposed to add to the above list, but with less confidence. The other plays, in number about thirty-nine, published under their joint names, he would assign either to Fletcher alone, or to Fletcher assisted by some other dramatist, not Beaumont.

71. 9. The Discoveries, not published till after Jonson's death, are like the contents of a commonplace book, and of very unequal merit; here occurs the well-known criticism on Shakspere as having 'never blotted out a line.' The praise which Dryden gives to the book is excessive. To go no further, the 'Examens' annexed by Corneille to his dramas are incomparably more valuable than anything in the Discoveries

13. Epicæne, or the Silent Woman, appeared in 1609.

73. 14. (to geloion), the laughable or ridiculous element.

26., disposition; , passion (ethos, pathos).

75. 25. Hor. Epist. ii. 1. 168.

76. 19. The prose comedy of Bartholomew Fair was produced in 1614.

77. 17. Of the piece on which our author has given so high