“In the large book of playes you late did print,
In Beaumont and in Fletcher’s name, why in’t
Did you not justice? Give to each his due?
For Beaumont of those many writ in few,
And Massinger in other few; the main
Being sole issues of sweet Fletcher’s brain.
But how came I, you ask, so much to know?
Fletcher’s chief bosome-friend inform’d me so.”
Fletcher’s lament for his Friend