Hym. Peace, ho! I bar confusion: If truth holds true contents.* [To ORLANDO and ROSALIND. [To OLIVER and CELIA. You and you are heart in heart: [To TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY. As the winter to foul weather. How thus we met, and these things finish. SONG. Wedding is great Juno's crown; Duke S. O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me; Phe. I will not eat my word, now thou art mine; Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.t Enter JAQUES DE BOIS. [To SYLVIUS. Jaq. de B. Let me have audience for a word or two; I am the second son of old Sir Rowland, That bring these tidings to this fair assembly;- That were with him exiled: This to be true, Duke S. Welcome, young man; Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding: That have endured shrewd days and nights with us, Play, music; and you brides and bridegrooms all, And thrown into neglect the pompous court? Jaq. To him will I; out of these convertites Your patience, and your virtue well deserves it : [TO DUKE S, You [To ORLANDO] to a love, that your true faith doth merit:- And you [To TOUCHSTONE to wrangling; for thy loving voyage Is but for two months victuall'd:-So to your pleasures; I am for other than for dancing measures. Duke S. Stay, Jaques, stay. Jaq. To see no pastime, I:-what you would have I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave. Duke S. Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites, And we do trust they'll end in true delights. EPILOGUE. [Exit. [A dance. Ros. 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, women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as pleases them: and so I charge you, O men, * Dressed. for the love you bear to women, (as I perceive by your simpering. none of you hate 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 curt'sy, bid me farewell. [Exeunt. That I liked. END OF VOL. I. COX (BROTHERS) AND WYMAN, PRINTERS, GREAT QUEEN STREET. |