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Tho. Well said, Sir Geffrey. Sir Gef. Daunce. Lady. October the xvth, 1635. It is curious that it should have been left to the present editor to call attention to a piece of such extraordinary interest; for I have no hesitation in predicting that Barnavelt's Tragedy, for its splendid command of fiery dramatic rhetoric, will rank among the masterpieces of English dramatic literature.
MS. they. MS. Potents. The part was taken by "G. Lowen." "Jo: Rice" took the part. All's Well, II. 3. A corruption of Dutch brui. The meaning is "A plague on his Excellencie!" In the MS. follow two and a half lines, spoken by Vandort, and a speech of Barnavelt's, twenty-four lines long. These were cancelled on revision.
On page 250 Barnavelt's hope that the soldiers will regret him because he fed and nursed them, stands in flagrant opposition to what Massinger says of Barnavelt's cashiering the Captain, on page 215. III. 2, is by Massinger. The passage on page 253 has been mentioned already. Massinger is almost the only later dramatist who has a large number of dissyllable "tions." We have here ,
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