Theseus says: “Forward to the temple,”[364] being anxious to be married. “Similar words in similar situations occur in Massinger.”[365] In neither case, however, is it a bridegroom who speaks.
The Two Noble Kinsmen, I., 165, 166:
1st Queen. And that work presents itself to th' doing;
Now 'twill take form, the heats are gone to-morrow.
Boyle says this is obscure, but can be explained by Empress of the East:
That resolution which grows cold to-day
Will freeze to-morrow.[366]
The thought is a familiar one; and can anyone suppose that Massinger wrote line 165?
The expression “our undertaker”[367] recalls a word used by Shakspere.[368] Massinger also has it twice;[369] the parallel is interesting, but the word was a cant political term of Jacobean times.
The fact that apes imitate is referred to in these lines:[370]