2776Ros. It is not the fashion to see the Ladie the Epi-

2777logue: but it is no more vnhandsome, then to see the

2778Lord the Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs

2779no bush, 'tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue.

2780Yet to good wine they do vse good bushes : and good

2781playes proue the better by the helpe of good Epilogues:

2782What a case am I in then, that am neither a good Epi-

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,

2791and the women, the play may please. If I were a Wo-

2792man, I would kisse as many of you as had beards that

2793pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that

2794I defi'de not : And I am sure, as many as haue good

2795beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths, will for my kind