AV " SONG. Wedding is great Juno's Crown, Duke Sen. O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me, Ev'n daughter-welcome, in no lefs degree. Phe. I will not eat my word-now thou art mine, Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine. Jaq. de B. Let me have audience for a word or two I am the second fon of old Sir Rowland, His brother here, and put him to the fword: J Duke Sen. Welcome, young man : A land A land itself at large, a potent Dukedom. Play, mufick; and you brides and bridegrooms all, And thrown into neglect the pompous Court. Jaq. To him will I: out of thefe convertites. [To Orla. You to your land, and love, and great allies; You to a long and well-deferved bed; [To Oli. [To Silv. [To the Clown. Is but for two months victual'd-fo to your pleasures: I am for other than for dancing measures. Duke Sen. Stay, Jaques, tay. Jaq. To fee no pastime, I-what you would have, I'll stay to know at your abandon'd Cave. [Exits Duke Sen. Proceed, proceed; we will begin thefe rites; As, we do truft, they'll end, in true delights. Ref. It is not the fashion to see the lady the Epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome, than to fee the lord the Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bufb, 'tis true, that a good Play needs no Epilogue. Yet to good wine they do ufe good bufhes; and good Plays prove the better by the help of good Epilogues. What a cafe am I in then, that am neither a good Epilogue, nor can 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 pleafes you and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women (as I perceive by your fimpring, none of you hate them) S What a cafe am I in then, &c.] Here feems to be a chaẩm, or fome other depravation, which deftroys the fentiment here intended. The reasoning probably ftood thus, Good wine needs no bush, good plays need no epilogue, but bad wine requires a good bufh, and a bad play a good Epilogue. What cafe am I in then? To reftore the words is impoffible; all that can be done with out copies is, to note the fault. 6 furnish'd like a beggar That is, dreffed: fo before, he was furnished like a huntsman. I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as pleafes YOU, and I barge you, O men,, for the love bear to women, you men, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as pleases THEM: and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women,TO LIKE AS MUCH AS PLEASES THEM, that between you and the women, &c. Without the alteration of You into Them, the invocation is nonsense; and without the addition of the words, to like as much as pleases them, the inference of, that between you and the women the play may pafs, would be unfupported by any precedent premifes. The words feem to have been ftruck out by fome fenfeless Player, as a vicious redundancy. WARBURTON. The words you and ym written as was the cultom in that time, that between you and the women, were in manufcript fcarcely di &c.] This paffage fhould be ftinguishable. The emendation read thus, I charge you, wo- is very judicious and probable. that 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 farewel. [Exeunt omnes 9. |