former honour I bequeath; Your patience and your virtue well deserves it: [TO ORLANDO.] You to a love that your true faith doth merit : [TO OLIVER.] You to your land, and love, and great allies: [TO SILVIUS.] You to a long and well-deserved bed : [TO TOUCHSTONE.] And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage Is but for two months victuall'd. So, to your pleasures: Lam for other than for danc ing measures. Duke S. stay. Stay, Jaques, Jaq. To see 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. [Exeunt. EPILOGUE. Ros. It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see 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 use 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 insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not furnished 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 you and I charge you, O men! for the love you bear to women, as I perceive by your simpering none of you hates them, that between you and the women the play may please. If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not; and I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths, will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell. |