"And those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honour,
And by those claim their greatness, not by blood."—Henry VIII., V. 4.
Of a kind of parenthetical asseveration, a single instance, also, from each will suffice:
"My innocent life (I dare maintain it, Sir)."—Wife for a Month, IV. 1.
"A woman (I dare say, without vain glory)
Never yet branded with suspicion."—Henry VIII., III. 1.
"A great patience," in Henry VIII., may be paralleled by "a brave patience," in The Two Noble Kinsmen: and the expression "aim at," occurring at the close of the verse (as, by the bye, almost all Fletcher's peculiarities do) as seen in Act III. 1.,
"Madam, you wander from the good we aim at,"
is so frequently to be met with in Fletcher, that, having noted four instances in the Pilgrim, three in the Custom of the Country, and four in the Elder Brother, I thought I had found more than enough.