which by metrical tests are Fletcher's, are precisely the prose of
Fletcher's Dion in Act II, Scene 4 and Act V, Scene 3 of _Philaster_,
and the tricks of alliteration, triplet, and iteration, are those of
Fletcher's verse in the same scenes.
FOOTNOTES:
[149] Some sixteen plays in all.
[150] _The Chances_, I, 1, p. 222 (Dyce); but as a rule I use in this
chapter the text of the _Cambridge English Classics_.
[151] For these scenes, and the reasons for asserting that Fletcher
revised them, see Chapter XXIV below.
[152] The reader may judge for himself by referring to the citation
from the _Letter_ and the poems to the Countess in Chapters VII and
XI, above.
[153] Fleay, Boyle, Oliphant, Alden. And even G. C. Macaulay, who once
claimed the whole play for Beaumont, says now "perhaps Fletcher's."
[154] Q 1622, slightly modernized.
[155] IV, 1, 2, 3; V, 1, 3.
[156] Quarto of 1619 as given by Alden.