PHIL. How art thou blest from shame, and I from ruin! [To GRACE. SAV. I from the baker's ditch, if I'd seen you in. PHIL. Not possible the whole world to match again

Such grief, such joy, in minutes lost and won!
BEV. Who ever knew more happiness in less
compass?

Ne'er was poor gentleman so bound to a sister
As I am, for the weakness" of thy mind;
Not only that thy due, but all our wealth
Shall lie as open as the sun to man,
For thy employments; so the charity
Of this dear bosom bids me tell thee now.
MIS. Low. I am her servant for't.

L. GOLD. Hah, worthy sister!

The government of all I bless thee with.

BEV. Come, gentlemen, on all perpetual friendship. Heaven still relieves what misery would destroy; Never was night yet of more general joy.

[Exeunt omnes.

weakness] An evident misprint; but I know not what word to substitute for it: qy. "wittiness"? see title of the play.

EPILOGUE

Spoken by WEATHERWISE.

Now, let me see, what weather shall we have now? Hold fair now, and I care not [looking at almanac]: mass, full moon too

Just between five and six this afternoon!

This happens right; [reads] the sky for the best part clear,

Save here and there a cloud or two dispers'd,—
That's some dozen of panders and half a score
Pickpockets, you may know them by their whistle;
And they do well to use that while they may,
For Tyburn cracks the pipe and spoils the music.
What says the destiny of the hour this evening?
Hah, [reads] fear no colours! by my troth, agreed
then ;

The red and white looks cheerfully; for, know ye all,

The planet's Jupiter, you should be jovial;
There's nothing lets" it but the Sun i' the Dog:
Some bark in corners that will fawn and cog,
Glad of my fragments for their ember-week;
The sign's in Gemini too, both hands should meet,
There should be noise i' th' air, if all things hap,
Though I love thunder when you make the clap.
Some faults perhaps have slipt, I am to answer :"
And if in any thing your revenge appears,

Send me in with all your fists about mine ears.

u

Y

lets] i. e. hinders.

cog] See note, p. 71.

answer] Here a line (ending with the word "Cancer") has dropt out.

THE INNER-TEMPLE MASQUE.

VOL. V.

Ν

The Inner-Temple Masque. Or Masque of Heroes. Presented (as an Entertainement for many worthy Ladies :) By Gentlemen of the same Ancient and Noble House. Tho. Middleton. London Printed for John Browne, and are to be sold at his Shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreete. 1619. 4to.

It was licensed-" 1619 10 July The Temple Maske.An 1618" see Chalmers's Suppl. Apol. p. 202.

Langbaine (Acc. of Engl. Dram. Poets, p. 372) having said, in his notice of this Masque, that Mrs. Behn "has taken part of it into the City Heiress," we are told in the Biographia Dramatica, that "Mrs. Behn has introduced into the City Heiress a GREAT part of The Inner-Temple Masque ;" and Warton" believes" that the Masque "is the foundation" of Mrs. Behn's play, Hist. of English Poetry, vol. ii. p. 399 (note). Now the fact is, that Mrs. Behn has not borrowed a single line of the City Heiress from The Inner-Temple Masque! Langbaine, who in his list of Middleton's dramas omits A Mad World, my Masters, applies, by mistake, to The Inner-Temple Masque a remark which he had prepared for his notice of that play, and which he repeats when he mentions the comedy in his Appendix. He also states that the Masque was first printed in 1640-which is the date of the second edition (the earliest he had seen) of A Mad World, my Masters-and hence the Biogr. Dram. gives a second edition of the Masque in 1640!