As You Like It (Modern)

¶Rosalind 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. 2780Yet to good wine they do use good bushes, and good ¶plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. ¶What a case am I in then, 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 2785to beg will not become me. My way is 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 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 2790simpering, none of you hates them -- that between you ¶and 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 2795beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths, will, for my kind ¶offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.