As You Like It (Folio 1, 1623)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: David Bevington

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As You Like It (Modern)
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- Scene
  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2
  3. 1.3
  4. 2.1
  5. 2.2
  6. 2.3
  7. 2.4
  8. 2.5
  9. 2.6
  10. 2.7
  11. 3.1
  12. 3.2
  13. 3.3
  14. 3.4
  15. 3.5
  16. 4.1
  17. 4.2
  18. 4.3
  19. 5.1
  20. 5.2
  21. 5.3
  22. 5.4
  23. Epilogue
As You Like It (Folio 1, 1623)
- Work
- Scene
  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2
  3. 1.3
  4. 2.1
  5. 2.2
  6. 2.3
  7. 2.4
  8. 2.5
  9. 2.6
  10. 2.7
  11. 3.1
  12. 3.2
  13. 3.3
  14. 3.4
  15. 3.5
  16. 4.1
  17. 4.2
  18. 4.3
  19. 5.1
  20. 5.2
  21. 5.3
  22. 5.4
  23. Epilogue
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¶Ros. It is not the fashion to see the Ladie the Epi-
¶logue: but it is no more vnhandsome, then to see the
¶Lord the Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs
¶no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue.
2780Yet to good wine they do vse good bushes : and good
¶playes proue the better by the helpe of good Epilogues:
¶What a case am I in then, that am neither a good Epi-
¶logue, nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalfe of a
¶good play? I am not furnish'd like a Begger, therefore
2785to begge will not become mee. My way is to coniure
¶you, and Ile begin with the Women. I charge you (O
¶women) for the loue you beare to men, to like as much
¶of this Play, as please you: And I charge you (O men)
¶for the loue you beare to women (as I perceiue by your
2790simpring, none of you hates them) that betweene you,
¶and the women, the play may please. If I were a Wo-
¶man, I would kisse as many of you as had beards that
¶pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that
¶I defi'de not : And I am sure, as many as haue good
2795beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths, will for my kind
¶offer, when I make curt'sie, bid me farewell.
 Exit.

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