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- {\pard\f0\fs28{\fs48 As You Like It
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- {\b\fs36 Epilogue}
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- {\b \fs24 ROSALIND}{\i (to the audience)} 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, {\fs20 5}\
- 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 {\fs20 10}\
- 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\'b1\'b1as I perceive\
- by your simpering none of you hates them\'b1\'b1that {\fs20 15}\
- 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 {\fs20 20}\
- for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.\
- {\i Exit\
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