Maintain'd in thirst of honour, not of blood."--_Bonduca_, V. 1.
"And those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honour,
And by those claim their greatness, not by blood."--_Henry VIII._, V. 4.

Of a kind of parenthetical asseveration, a single instance, also, from each
will suffice:

"My innocent life (I dare maintain it, Sir)."--_Wife for a Month, IV. 1._
"A woman (I dare say, without vain glory)
Never yet branded with suspicion."--_Henry VIII., III. 1._

"A great patience," in _Henry VIII._, may be paralleled by "a brave
patience," in _The Two Noble Kinsmen_: and the expression "aim at,"
_occurring at the close of the verse_ (as, by the bye, almost all
Fletcher's peculiarities do) as seen in Act III. 1.,

"Madam, you wander from the good we aim at,"

is so frequently to be met with in Fletcher, that, having noted four
instances in the _Pilgrim_, three in the _Custom of the Country_, and four
in the _Elder Brother_, I thought I had found more than enough.

Now, Sir, on reading _Henry VIII._, and meeting with each of these
instances, I felt that I remembered "the trick of that voice;" and, without
having at present by me any means for reference, I feel confident that of
the commonest examples not so many can be found among all the rest of the
reputed plays of Shakspeare, as in _Henry VIII._ alone, or rather in those
parts of _Henry VIII._ which I reject as Shakspeare's; while of the more
remarkable, I think I might challenge the production of a single instance.