Epilogue

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Epilogue

I would now ask ye how ye like the play;

But, as it is with school-boys, cannot say

I’m cruel fearful. Pray, yet stay a while

And let me look upon ye. No man smile?

Then it goes hard, I see. He that has

Lov’d a young handsome wench, then, show his face⁠—

’Tis strange if none be here⁠—and, if he will

Against his conscience, let him hiss, and kill

Our market. ’Tis in vain, I see, to stay ye:

Have at the worst can come, then! Now what say ye?

And yet mistake me not; I am not bold;

We have no such cause. If the tale we’ve told⁠—

For ’tis no other⁠—any way content ye⁠—

For to that honest purpose it was meant ye⁠—

We have our end; and ye shall have ere long,

I dare say, many a better, to prolong

Your old loves to us. We and all our might

Rest at your service: gentlemen, good night. Flourish.