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EPILOGUE

After our Æsop's fable shown to-day,

I come to give the moral of the play.

Feigned Zeal, you saw, set out the speedier pace;

But the last heat, Plain Dealing won the race:

Plain Dealing for a jewel has been known;

But ne'er till now the jewel of a crown.

When heaven made man, to show the work divine,

Truth was his image, stamped upon the coin: