Enter JAQUES DE BOYS. Jaq. de B. Let me have audience for a word or two: I am the second son of old Sir Rowland, His brother here and put him to the sword: Duke S. That have endured shrewd days and nights with us And fall into our rustic revelry. Play, music! And you, brides and bridegrooms all, 162. Address'd, equipped. 178. every, every one. 160 170 180 163. conduct, leadership. 174. the other, Orlando. 179. shrewd, hard. Jaq. Sir, by your patience. If I heard you rightly, The duke hath put on a religious life And thrown into neglect the pompous court? Jaq. To him will I out of these convertites There is much matter to be heard and learn'd. [To duke] You to your former honour I bequeath; Your patience and your virtue well deserves it: [To Orl.] You to a love that your true faith doth merit : [To Oli.] Youto your land and love and great allies: [To Sil.] You to a long and well-deserved bed: [To Touch.] And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage Is but for two months victuall'd. So, to your pleasures: I am for other than for dancing measures. Duke S. Stay, Jaques, stay. Jaq. To see no pastime I: what you would have I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave. 90 200 [Exit. Duke S. Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites, As we do trust they 'll end, in true delights. [A dance. 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 190. convertites, converts. 3. good wine needs no bush. The proverb took its rise from the bush hung as a sign from the shops of vintners. ΙΟ 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 20 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. 9. insinuate with you, ingratiate myself with you. [Exeunt. were played by boys. 20. that liked me, that I 18. If I were a woman. the Restoration female parts 21. defied, distrusted. END OF VOL. II. |