“All such as lived before you were not fools.”
The parenthesis is in Massinger's manner.
Again, in the second Epilogue, line 7, we find “qualification,” with which compare “fortification” in A New Way, I., 2, 25.
10. The Elder Brother. (Fletcher (?), Beaumont; probably revised generally by Massinger.)
M.: Act I., 1, 2; Act V., 1, 2.
A. H. B. thinks that Massinger revised and completed it after Fletcher's death, but says nothing about Beaumont.
A. H. C.: There are traces of Massinger in Act I., 1 and Act V., 1, in which scenes we find careful metre and a good many parentheses. While Act I., 2 resembles Massinger, it seems to me to have a lighter touch than his. In Act V., 1 we find a speech or two very much in his manner, and characteristic also is the skill with which an ambiguity is prolonged for some time in this scene, and then dissipated. I doubt if he wrote Act V., 2.
11. The Sea Voyage. (Massinger, Fletcher.)
M.: Act II., 1, 2; Act III., 1, from “Enter Rosellia”; Act V., 1, 2, 3, 4.
A. H. B. says nothing about Massinger here. Macaulay doubts if he had any share in the play.