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It is not the fashion to see the lady the 2842epilogue, but it is no more unhandsome than to see 2843the lord the prologue. If it be true that good wine 2844needs no bush, ’tis true that a good play needs no 28455epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes, 2846and good plays prove the better by the help of good 2847epilogues. What a case am I in then that am neither 2848a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in 2849the behalf of a good play! I am not furnished like a 285010beggar; therefore to beg will not become me. My 2851way is to conjure you, and I’ll begin with the 2852women. I charge you, O women, for the love you 2853bear to men, to like as much of this play as please 2854you. And I charge you, O men, for the love you bear 285515to women—as I perceive by your simpering, none 2856of you hates them—that between you and the 2857women the play may please. If I were a woman, I 2858would kiss as many of you as had beards that 2859pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths 286020that I defied not. And I am sure as many as have 2861good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths will for 2862my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell. She exits.