Francis Beaumont: Dramatist / A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, / And of His Association with John Fletcher

by Charles Mills Gayley

[231] Lines are numbered as in the Variorum edition.

[232] Fletcher affects this figure, cf. A Wife for a Month, Act II, 2, lines 47-48.

[233] Cf. his lines in Maides Tragedy, IV, 1, 252-254; in King and No King, IV, 2, 57-62; Philaster, V, 4, 114; Hum. Lieut., IV, 5, 51; Mad Lover, III, 4, 105; Loyall Subject, III, 6, 141; IV, 3, 70; Wife for a Month, IV, 5, 38, 39.

[234] The best editions of Philaster since the time of Dyce are those of F. S. Boas, in the Temple Dramatists (1898), P. A. Daniel, in the Variorum (1904), Glover and Waller, in the Camb. Engl. Classics (1905), and A. H. Thorndike in Belles Lettres (1906).

[235] Thorndike, for instance,—who selects lines 22-40 as an instance of Beaumont's skill in imitating natural conversation. Influence of B. and F. on Shakespeare, p. 129.

[236] Numbering of the Variorum.

[237] Q2 "eies."

[238] II, 1, 127.

[239] III, 1, 221.

[240] V, 3, 244.