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
190 I’ll stay to know at your abandon’d cave. [Exit.
[191] Duke S. Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites,
[192] As we do trust they’ll end, in true delights. [A dance.
[000] 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 005 do use good bushes; and good plays prove the better by [006] the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in then, [007] 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 010 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 [012] 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 [014] simpering, none of you hates them,—that between you and 015 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, for my kind offer, when I make [020] curtsy, bid me farewell. [Exeunt.