Compare with these from _Henry VIII._:--

"This night he make a supper, and a great one."--Act I. 3.

"Shrewd ones."--"Lame ones."--"_so_ great ones."--_Ibid._

"I had my trial,

And must needs say a noble one."--Act II. 1.

"A wife--a true one."--Act III. 1.

"They are a sweet society of fair ones."--Act I. 4.

Fletcher habitually uses "thousand" without the indefinite article, as in

the following instances:

"Carried before 'em thousand desolations."--_False One_, II. 9.

"Offers herself in thousand safeties to you."--_Rollo_, II. 1.

"This sword shall cut thee into thousand pieces."--_Knight of Malta_, IV.

2.

In _Henry VIII._ we have in the prologue:

"Of thousand friends."

"Cast thousand beams upon me."--Act IV. 2.

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