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ssatisfied; but, Gentlemen, in sign and token that I am not, I'll have one more merry Frisk before we part, 'tis a witty Wench; faith and troth, after a Month 'tis all one who's who; therefore come on, _Gload_. [They dance together. _Alon._ Monsieur _Haunce_, I see you are a Man of Gallantry. Come let us in, I know every Man here desires to make this Night his own, and sacrifice it to Pleasure. _The Ladies too in Blushes do confess. Equal Desires; which yet they'll not confess. Theirs, tho less fierce, more constant will abide; But ours less current grow the more they're try'd._ EPILOGUE. _Hiss 'em, and cry 'em down, 'tis all in vain, Incorrigible Scriblers can't abstain: But impudently i'th' old Sin engage; Tho doom'd before, nay banish'd from the Stage. Whilst sad Experience our Eyes convinces, That damn'd their Plays which hang'd the _German_ Princess; And we with Ornament set off a Play, Like her drest fine for Execution-day. And faith, I think, with as small hopes to live; Unless kind Gallants the same Grace you'd give Our Comedy as Her; beg a Reprieve. Well, what the other mist, let our Scribe get, A Pardon, for she swears she's the less Cheat. She never gull'd you Gallants of the Town Of Sum above four Shillings, or half a Crown. Nor does she, as some late great Authors do, Bubble the Audience, and the Players too. Her humble Muse soars not in the High-rode Of Wit transverst, or Baudy _A-la-mode_; Yet hopes her plain and easy Style is such, As your high Censures will disdain to touch. Let her low Sense creep safe from your Bravadoes, Whilst Rotas and Cabals aim at Granadoes._ * * * * * * * * * NOTES [Transcriber's Note: The Notes in the printed text give only page and line numbers. Act-and-scene designations shown between +marks+ have been added by the transcriber. Labels such as "Scene IIa" refer to points where the scene description changes without a new scene number.] NOTES ON THE TEXT. +Dramatis Personae+ p. 226 I have added to the Dramatis Personae 'Boy, Page to Marcel, Servant to Carlo, A Friar, Swains, Four Shepherds, Four Nymphs, Dutch men and Dutch women.' +Act I: Scene i+ p. 227, l. 3 The locale _A Street_ is not marked in 4to 1673 or 1724. p. 229, l. 4 _Christian._ 1724 'christian'. +Act I: Scene ii+ p. 2
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