646 Adams And when he stamps angrily she exclaims: One stampe more would do well. This is obviously an imitation of Antony and Cleopatra, I. Hi, in which the Egyptian Queen seeks to make Antony angry: ANTONY. You'll heat my blood; no more. CLEOPATRA. You can do better yet; but this is meetly. ANTONY. Now by my sword CLEOPATRA. And target. Still he mends. II. ii. 15-16. "Well, go thy ways, goodly wisdom, whom no body regards." This, of course, is ultimately based on the Book of Proverbs, but it may be that the author is echoing the humor of Falstaff and Hal in / Henry IV, I. ii. The chief influence of Shakespeare, however, is to be observed in the jealousy scenes. These are throughout reminiscent of Othello (compare especially III. i. 377-477 with Othello III. iii), and although Othello had not yet been printed, there are in a few cases verbal echoes. When the husband is first told of his wife's infidelity, he exclaims, III. i. 437: There is no dramme of manhood to suspect On such thin ayrie circumstance as this; Meer complement, and courtship. Compare Othello, III. iii. 176-192. Again, The Fatal Dowry, III. i. 467-68, Ere Hue to haue mens marginall fingers point At Charaloys, may be a reminiscence of Othello's striking image, IV. ii. 52-54, but alas! to make me The fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow and moving finger at. And Othello's lines, V. ii. 65-66, And mak'st me call what I intend to do A murder, which I thought a sacrifice, find a clear echo in The Fatal Dowry, V. ii. 5-6 : This braue reuenge, which they would haue cal'd murther, A noble Justice. After the Notes is printed a Glossary. This separation of the explanation of words from the explanation of passages may be justified in an extensive collection of plays where much repeti- tion can thus be avoided, but is hardly justified in the case of a single play (in this particular Glossary not more than a dozen words, and these so common that they might well have been
omitted, are noted as having occurred oftener than once). The
