Confirm’d in your allowance, joys me more
Than if a thousand full-cramm’d theatres
Should clap their eager hands.
Of the final Scene, [V, iii], little need be said. It brings before us again a court-room, with another trial, and continues the manner of its predecessor, [I, ii], as only Massinger can. His customary formulae, stand bound, play the parasite, etc., are here; characteristic too are his opposition of wanton heat and lawful fires ([ll. 141–2]—cf. C-G. 37 b; D. V. 476), while further material for comparison may be found in [ll. 95–6] with Respect, wealth, favour, the whole world for a dower of The Virgin Martyr (C-G. 6 b), and in [ll. 165–7]:
Char. You must find other proofs to strengthen these
But mere presumptions.
Du Croy Or we shall hardly
Allow your innocence.
with C-G. 39 a and b:
You must produce
Reasons of more validity and weight
To plead in your defence, or we shall hardly
Conclude you innocent.