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A not to be corrupted judge, my conscience Would not alone condemn me, but inflict Such lingering tortures on me, as the hangman Though witty in his malice, could not equal,

Cassilanes urges the Senate to enforce the death penalty in accordance with the law. But the proceedings are now interrupted by the Princess Erota, who in turn accuses Cassilanes of ingratitude to herself, and claims a like judgment upon him, whereupon Antinous exclaims :

Cunning and cruel lady, runs the stream Of your affections this way ?

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Such, indeed, I grant, The stream of his affection was, and ran A constant course.

' The Duke of Milan,' V. i.

and the following passage from the first scene (Massinger's) of ' The Bloody Brother ' :

The stream of my affection had run constant In one fair current.

No sooner has Erota denounced Cassilanes but a like charge is made against her by Antinous, and she too is compelled to plead guilty, whereupon Cassilanes calls upon the senators to pronounce sentence without further delay :

Why sit you like dumb statues ? Demur no longer.

This " statue " simile is a favourite of Massinger's, appearing over and over again in his plays. The senators to whom this remark is addressed are seated on the bench of justice, and consequently we do not get " stand like a statue," as in ' The Virgin- Martyr,' III. ii. :

Stand you now like a statue ?

and in Massinger's part of ' Thierry and! Theodoret ' (I. i.) :

Now you stand still like statues, but, though nowhere else in Massinger's acknowledged works do we find " sit like a . statue," we have it in effect in ' Henry VIII., 7 I. ii. :

If we shall stand still,. . r

We should take root here where we sit, or sit State-statues only.

Finally, at the end of the play Erota rejects Antinous :

I here disclaim the interest thou hadst once In my too passionate thoughts, much in the same words as those in which - Lorenzo renounces Matilda at the end of ' The Bashful Lover ' :

Here, to the world I freely do profess that I disclaim All interest in you.

and Aurelia, Bertoldo at the end of ' The Maid of Honour ' :

for here I do disclaim All interest in you.

Summarizing the results of this examina- tion of ' The Laws of Candy,' there are only two scenes the first two scenes of Act III. in which I do not find definite traces of Massinger. I feel little hesitation in assign- ing Act I., Act IV., sc. ii., and Act V. wholly to him, but the remainder (Act II., Act III.,,, sc. iii. : and Act IV., sc. i.) seems only partly his. Further I believe that only one other hand was engaged in the composition of thia- play, and that this hand was neither Beau- mont's nor Fletcher's.

H. DUGDALE SYKE&..

PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES, TAVERNS, AND INNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Old Blue Boar Old Christian's

Old Golden Cross.. Old Jerusalem

Tavern

Old King's Head Inn Old Man's. ,

Old Red Lion Old Slaughter's

(See ante. pp. 29, 59, 84, 105.)

Tyburn Boad

St. John's Street, near

Smith field Barrs See Golden Cross. By St. John's Square,

Clerkenwell Southwark Scotland Yard, Charing

Cross. " Almost opposite

to the Admiralty "

West Street, Fleet Street See Slaughter's.

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1786 ' Tunbridge Wells Guide,' 1786. _> 1709 London Spy, pt. ix., p. 201. 1711 Addison's "Spectator, no. 403. 1722 Defoe's ' Journey through England,' i. T 168v- 1728 Daily Post, May 15 ; Besant, p. 310 r- Sydney's ' XVIII. Century,' i. 186 ~ r Shelley's ' Inns,' p. 223 : Cunningham p. 309 ; MacMichael's ' Charing ^ p. 55. Thornbury, ii. 421.