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EPILOGUE. - William Shakespeare, The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth [1623]Edition used:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare), ed. with a glossary by W.J. Craig M.A. (Oxford University Press, 1916).
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EPILOGUE.’Tis ten to one, this play can never please All that are here: some come to take their ease And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear, We’ve frighted with our trumpets; so, ’tis clear They’ll say ’tis naught: others, to hear the city Abus’d extremely, and to cry, ‘That’s witty!’ Which we have not done neither: that, I fear, All the expected good we’re like to hear For this play at this time, is only in The merciful construction of good women; For such a one we show’d ’em: if they smile, And say ’twill do, I know, within a while All the best men are ours; for ’tis ill hap If they hold when their ladies bid ’em clap. |
