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- AS YOU LIKE IT
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- Epilogue
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- 1 Rosalind (to the audience) It is not the fashion to see the
- l2l lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than
- l3l to see the lord the prologue. If it be true that good
- l4l wine needs no bush, Ætis true that a good play needs
- l5l no epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes,
- l6l and good plays prove the better by the help of good
- l7l epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am neither
- l8l a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in the
- l9l behalf of a good play! I am not furnished like a beggar,
- l10l therefore to beg will not become me. My way is to
- l11l conjure you; and IÆll begin with the women. I charge
- l12l you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like
- l13l as much of this play as please you. And I charge you,
- l14l O men, for the love you bear to womenùas I perceive
- l15l by your simpering none of you hates themùthat
- l16l between you and the women the play may please. If I
- l17l were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had
- l18l beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and
- l19l breaths that I defied not. And I am sure, as many as
- l20l have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths will
- l21l for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
- (Exit)
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