A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 by J. M. Robertson

[75] As to the expert analysis of this play, which shows it to be in large part Fletcher's, see Furnivall, as cited, pp. xciii-xcvi. [76] Cp. Seccombe and Allen, The Age of Shakspere, 1903, ii, 189. [77] Alberti, Briefe betreffende den Zustand der Religion in Gross-Britannien, Hanover, 1752, ii, 429. Alberti reads "God" at the end of the passage; I follow Grosart's edition. [78] Hallam, Lit. Europe, ii, 371, 376; Pattison, Isaac Casaubon, 2nd ed. p. 286 sq. [79] Pattison, as cited, p. 290; G. W. Johnson, Memoirs of John Selden, 1835, pp. 56-70. [80] Memoirs cited, pp. 60-61. On the whole question see the Review appended by Selden to his History after a few copies had been distributed. [81] Poems of Sir John Davies, ed. Grosart, 1876, i, 82, 83. [82] Essaies Politicke and Morall, by D. T. Gent, 1608, fol. 9. [83] Act iv, sc. 1. [84] Act i, sc. 1. Jonson himself could have been so indicted on the strength of certain verses. [85] He had been offered professorships of divinity at Saumur and Marburg. [86] Gardiner, History of England, 1603-1642, 4th ed. ii,