We need not add this wind by our observance
To sails too full already.
This reminds us of the common Massinger simile,--
Too large a sail for your small bark.
And _Virg. Mar_., I. 1. 85,--
You pour oil
On fire that burns already at the height.
Both similes occur in almost all Massinger's plays.
The situation on page 219 has a striking resemblance to a similar scene
with Cranmer in _Henry VIII_. Both Maurice and Cranmer are to be
disgraced by being kept waiting outside while their enemies were at
Council. I cannot help here repeating what I have expressed before, that
_Henry VIII_. as we have it is not the work of Shakespeare and Fletcher,
but of Massinger and Fletcher, with only fragments of the Shakespeare
play.