(Contention, pp. 54, 55, Greene.)

Act IV. sc. iv. ll. 1-18, 25-60. New or reformed. (Contention, pp. 55, 56, Greene.)

Act IV. sc. v.

(Contention, p. 56, Greene.)

New-for the most part. Shakspere.

Shakspere.

All the lines are old

ones.

1 Act IV. sc. ix. Certainly such a scene as this is like Greene's work, and is little like Shakspere's. But the corresponding scene in the Contention (Reprints, p. 62) is Greene's, and it may be that unwittingly Shakspere here, and elsewhere, fell into the style of the writer whom he was revising.

Henry VI. PART II.

Sc. ii. Shakspere revising Greene.
Sc. iii. Shakspere revising Greene.
Sc. iv. Shakspere revising Greene.
Sc. v. unrevised.

Sc. vi. Shakspere revising Greene.
Sc. vii. Shakspere revising Greene.
Sc. viii. Shakspere revising Greene.
Sc. ix. Shakspere revising Greene.

Sc. x. Shakspere and Marlowe revising Greene.

Act V. sc. i. ll. 1-160.1

Marlowe.

New or reformed.

(Contention, pp. 64-68, Marlowe and? Greene.)

Shakspere. Marlowe.

Marlowe. ? Marlowe. Marlowe.

"That gold must round engirt these brows of mine;
Whose smile and frown like to Achilles' spear,

Is able with the change to kill or cure."

Malone notices that the allusion contained in these lines is borrowed from
Propertius:-

66
"Mysus et Hæmonii juvenis qua cuspide vulnus

Senserat, hac ipsa cuspide sensit opem."-Eleg. II. i. 63, 64.

The allusion is one which Shakspere would scarcely be likely to have known, and heightens, I think, the probability that the passage in which it appears is by Marlowe.

2 Act V. sc. ii. ll. 31-64. Of this passage Mr Swinburne says that "it is rather out of the range of than beyond the scope of Marlowe's genius." I put it down to Marlowe, feeling at the same time that 11. 45-49 are very like Shakspere's.

(True Tragedy, pp. 128-133, Marlowe and ?Greene.)

Thus in Act I. we have :

Sc. i. Shakspere revising Marlowe.

Sc. ii. Marlowe revising himself.

Sc. iii. unrevised.

Sc. iv. Shakspere revising Marlowe and ?Greene.

(True Tragedy, pp. 133-139, Marlowe and

perhaps Greene.)

Marlowe.

Henry VI. PART III.

Act II. sc. ii. 11. 6, 53, 56,

79, 83, 143, 146-148.

Act II. sc. iii. ll. 7, 9-47.

New.

(True Tragedy, pp. 139-144, Greene, and Mar-
lowe, and perhaps Peele.)

11. 49-56.
(True Tragedy, pp.

Act II. sc. iv. ll. 1-4, 12, 13.

(True Tragedy, p.

Act II. sc. v. ll. 1-54.

? Marlowe.1

New or reformed. Α Shakspere.

few lines are taken

unaltered from the
True Tragedy, PP.
144-146.

New or Reformed.2
144-146, Marlowe.)
New.

Marlowe.

Marlowe.

146, Greene.)

True Tragedy, p.
147.

New or reformed. Some
lines are taken un-
altered from the

True Tragedy, pp.
147, 148.

New.

Shakspere.

? Marlowe. Shakspere.

New or reformed.

147-149, Greene.)

New.

(True Tragedy, pp. 149-152, Marlowe and Greene.)
Thus in Act II. we have :-

Sc. i. Marlowe and Shakspere revising Mar-
lowe and Greene.

Sc. ii. Marlowe revising himself, and Greene,

and perhaps Peele.

Marlowe.

'Act II. sc. ii. Where there are only a few isolated lines added it is very hard to discriminate between Shakspere's and Marlowe's manner. Here, and in some other passages, it is chiefly because I think the corresponding part of the True Tragedy is by Marlowe that I assign the few additions made to him also.

2 Act II. sc. iii. 11. 52-53 :

"And if we thrive promise them such rewards

As Victors wear at the Olympian games."

Fancy an English general in the midst of the horror of such a battle as Towton taking time to promise his men Olympian wreaths! I assign the passage to Marlowe. I cannot think that Shakspere would have written so irritating a line.

Henry VI. PART III.

Sc. iii. Shakspere and Marlowe revising
Marlowe.

Sc. iv. Marlowe revising Greene.

Sc. v. Shakspere and? Marlowe revising Greene.
Sc. vi. Marlowe revising himself and Greene.

Act III. sc. i. ll. 1-54, 63- New or reformed. Some
101.

Shakspere.

(True Tragedy, pp. Act III. sc. ii. ll. 9, 16, 20, 38-51, 58-68, 85, 86, 110. Act III. sc. ii. ll. 128-190.

lines are taken un

(True Tragedy, pp. 154-158, Greene, and per

haps Marlowe at the end.)

Act III. sc. iii. ll. 110-120.

11. 134-137, 141-150, 156-161.

Act III. sc. iii. ll. 4-43, 47,

48, 67-77.

New.

? Marlowe.

191-201.1

Reformed or new.

? Marlowe.

New.

? Marlowe.

New or reformed.

? Marlowe.

Act III. sc. iii. ll. 175-179,

Act III. sc. iii. 11. 208-218,

221, 226, 233-238.

Act III. sc. iii. ll. 244-255.

(True Tragedy, pp. 158-163, Greene, and
possibly Peele.)

Thus in Act III. we have :

Sc. i. Shakspere revising Greene.

Sc. ii. Shakspere revising Greene and
? Marlowe.

Sc. iii. Marlowe revising Greene and per-
haps Peele.

Act III. sc. iii. 11. 199-201 :

"Warwick these words have turned my hate to love;
And I forgive and quite forget old faults,

And joy that thou becomest King Henry's friend."

In describing Margaret's character Holinshed quaintly remarks that she was "furnished with the gifts of reason, policie, and wisdom; but yet sometime (according to hir kind) when she had beene fullie bent on a matter, suddenlie like a weather cocke, mutable and turning."