Patient Grizzel. Griselda in Chaucer’s Clerke’s Tale. Dekker collaborated in a play entitled The Pleasant Comedy of Patient Grissill (1603).
The high-flying. The Honest Whore, Second Part, Act II. 1. etc.
[240]. White Devil. 1612.
Duchess of Malfy. 1623.
By which they lose some colour. Cf. Othello, I. 1. ‘As it may lose some colour.’
[241]. All fire and air. Henry V., III. 7, ‘he is pure air and fire,’ and Antony and Cleopatra, V. 2, ‘I am fire and air.’
Like the female dove. Hamlet, V. 1, ‘As patient as the female dove, when that her golden couplets are disclosed.’
The trial scene and the two following quotations, The White Devil. Act III. 1.
[243]. Your hand I’ll kiss. Act II. 1.
The lamentation of Cornelia. Act V. 2.