Double Marriage, II., 4, 30:
Who stole her? Oh! my prophetic soul!
I., 2, 40. Cf. also A New Way, I., 3, 88, and Emperor of the East, V., 2, 83:
I am flesh and blood, as you are, sensible
Of heat and cold, as much a slave unto
The tyranny of my passions as the meanest
Of my poor subjects.
Thus Gardiner's dislike of Anne Boleyn (V., 1, 22) is true to history, though artistically a blemish on the play, because redundant.
The way in which in IV., 1, and elsewhere, historical details are dragged in is quite unlike Massinger, and very like Shakspere. Cf. lines 17-19, 24-29, 38-42, 47-49, 51, 52, 101-103.
Picture, II., 2, 336:
Honoria. I am full of thoughts,
And something there is here I must give form to,
Though yet an embryon.
Bondman, I., 3, 315; II., 1, 74-77; V., 2, 103; Renegado, III., 3, 97; The Virgin Martyr, III., 2, 98; Guardian, II., 3, 140; Emperor of the East, V., 1, 129; Bashful Lover, IV., 1, 200; Roman Actor, IV., 2, 105. Cf. also Emperor of the East, III., 3, 13; Thierry and Theodoret, I., 2.
It is a touch which goes back to Ovid's Metamorphoses, vi. 619: “Magnum quodcumque paravi: quid sit, adhuc dubito.”