“Academy,” in The Emperor of the East, I., 1, 45, seems accented on the last syllable.
Cf. A Woman killed with Kindness, III., 1:
And in this ground, increased this molehill
Unto that mountain which my father left me.
The Maid in the Mill, V., 2, Bustopha:
Oh mountain, shalt thou call a molehill a scab upon the face of the earth?
Cf. False One, III., 1, 28:
Let indirect and crooked counsels vanish.
Beside the Henslow document there are to be seen at Dulwich College four signatures of Massinger, in a beautiful clear hand; three of these are attached to leases of Alleyn's, and the fourth is added to Daborne's signature to the document mentioned by Cunningham in his Preface (p. xii.). The poem “Sero sed serio” is to be found in B.M. Royal MSS. XVIII., A. 20. The signature is identical with the Dulwich signatures. The poem itself is in another hand, with many flourishes.
The only reason for supposing it to be the poet's, besides his poverty, is an erasure in line 14, which runs thus:
then
Being,^silent then,