[75] As to the expert analysis of this play, which shows it to be in
large part Fletcher's, see Furnivall, as cited, pp. xciii-xcvi.
[76] Cp. Seccombe and Allen, The Age of Shakspere, 1903, ii, 189.
[77] Alberti, Briefe betreffende den Zustand der Religion in
Gross-Britannien, Hanover, 1752, ii, 429. Alberti reads "God" at the
end of the passage; I follow Grosart's edition.
[78] Hallam, Lit. Europe, ii, 371, 376; Pattison, Isaac Casaubon,
2nd ed. p. 286 sq.
[79] Pattison, as cited, p. 290; G. W. Johnson, Memoirs of John Selden,
1835, pp. 56-70.
[80] Memoirs cited, pp. 60-61. On the whole question see the
Review appended by Selden to his History after a few copies had
been distributed.
[81] Poems of Sir John Davies, ed. Grosart, 1876, i, 82, 83.
[82] Essaies Politicke and Morall, by D. T. Gent, 1608, fol. 9.
[83] Act iv, sc. 1.
[84] Act i, sc. 1. Jonson himself could have been so indicted on the
strength of certain verses.
[85] He had been offered professorships of divinity at Saumur and
Marburg.
[86] Gardiner, History of England, 1603-1642, 4th ed. ii,