Henry The Eighth (Folio 1, 1623)

3449THE EPILOGVE.

 3450Tis ten to one, this Play can neuer please
 3451All that are heere: Some come to take their ease,
 3452And sleepe an Act or two; but those we feare
 3453W'haue frighted with our Trumpets: so 'tis cleare,
 3454They'l say tis naught. Others to heare the City
 3455Abus'd extreamly, and to cry that's witty,
 3456Which wee haue not done neither; that I feare

 3457All the expected good w'are like to heare.
 3458For this Play at this time, is onely in
 3459The mercifull construction of good women,
 3460For such a one we shew'd 'em: If they smile,
 3461And say twill doe; I know within a while,
 3462 All the best men are ours; for 'tis ill hap,
 3463 If they hold, when their Ladies bid 'em clap.

3464FINIS.

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