other than for dancing measures. DUKE SENIOR
Stay, Jaques, stay. JAQUES To see no pastime I
what you would have I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave.
Exit DUKE SENIOR
Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites, As we do trust they'll end, in true delights.
A dance
EPILOGUE 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; yet
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 to 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 simpering, 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 beards or good faces or sweet breaths
will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
Exeunt
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