Duke S. Stay, Jaques, stay.

Jaq. To fee no pastime, I :—what you would have I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave.

[Exit.

Duke S. Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites, As we do trust they'll end, in true delights.

[A dance.

EPILOGU E.

Rof. It is not the fashion to fee the lady the epilogue: but it is no more unhandfome, than to fee the lord the prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needs no epilogue: Yet to good wine they do ufe good bushes; and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor cannot infinuate with you in the behalf of a good play? I am not furnish'd like a beggar, therefore to beg will not become me: my way is, to conjure you; and I'll begin with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please them: and fo I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women, (as I perceive by your fimpering, none of you hate them,) that between you and the women, the play may please. If I were a woman, I would kifs as many of you as had beards that pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that I defy'd not: and I am fure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or fweet breaths, will, for my kind offer, when I make curt'fy, bid me farewell.

[Exeunt.