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As You Like It - Act 5, EpilogueAct 5, Epilogue
⌜EPILOGUE.⌝
ROSALIND 2841 It is not the fashion to see the lady the
2842 epilogue, but it is no more unhandsome than to see
2843 the lord the prologue. If it be true that good wine
2844 needs no bush, ’tis true that a good play needs no
2845 5 epilogue. Yet to good wine they do use good bushes,
2846 and good plays prove the better by the help of good
2847 epilogues. What a case am I in then that am neither
2848 a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in
2849 the behalf of a good play! I am not furnished like a
2850 10 beggar; therefore to beg will not become me. My
2851 way is to conjure you, and I’ll begin with the
2852 women. I charge you, O women, for the love you
2853 bear to men, to like as much of this play as please
2854 you. And I charge you, O men, for the love you bear
2855 15 to women—as I perceive by your simpering, none
2856 of you hates them—that between you and the
2857 women the play may please. If I were a woman, I
2858 would kiss as many of you as had beards that
2859 pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths
2860 20 that I defied not. And I am sure as many as have
2861 good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths will for
2862 my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
She exits.