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As You Like It (Folio 1, 1623)
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2778Lord the Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs
2779no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue.
2781playes proue the better by the helpe of good Epilogues:
2783logue, nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalfe of a
2784good play? I am not furnish'd like a Begger, therefore
2785to begge will not become mee. My way is to coniure
2786you, and Ile begin with the Women. I charge you (O
2787women) for the loue you beare to men, to like as much
2788of this Play, as please you: And I charge you (O men)
2789for the loue you beare to women (as I perceiue by your
2790simpring, none of you hates them) that betweene you,
2792man, I would kisse as many of you as had beards that
2793pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that
2795beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths, will for my kind
2797FINIS.