As You Like It by William Shakespeare
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And you to wrangling, for thy louing voyage
Is but for two moneths victuall'd: So to your pleasures, I am for other, then for dancing meazures Du.Se. Stay, Iaques, stay Iaq. To see no pastime, I: what you would haue, Ile stay to know, at your abandon'd caue. Enter. Du.Se. Proceed, proceed: wee'l begin these rights, As we do trust, they'l end in true delights. Exit Ros. It is not the fashion to see the Ladie the Epilogue: but it is no more vnhandsome, then to see the Lord the Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue. Yet to good wine they do vse good bushes: and good playes proue the better by the helpe of good Epilogues: What a case am I in then, that am neither a good Epilogue, nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalfe of a good play? I am not furnish'd like a Begger, therefore to begge will not become mee. My way is to coniure you, and Ile begin with the Women. I charge you (O women) for the loue you beare to men, to like as much of this Play, as please you: And I charge you (O men) for the loue you beare to women (as I perceiue by your simpring, none of you hates them) that betweene you, |
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