 | A Pleasant Comedy, called A Mayden-Head Well Lost |  |
The Prologue.
Prologues to Playes in vse, and common are,As Vshers to Great Ladies: Both walke bare,
And comely both; conducting Beauty they
And wee appeare, to vsher in our Play.
Yet, be their faces foule, or featur'd well,
Be they hard-fauoured, or in lookes excell;
Yet being Vsher, he owes no lesse duty
Vnto the most deformed, then the choise Beautie.
It is our case; we vsher Acts and Scenes,
Some honest, and yet some may proue like Queanes.
(Loose and base stuffe) yet that is not our fault,
We walke before, but not like Panders hault
Before such cripled ware: Th'Acts we present
We hope are Virgins, drawne for your content
Vnto this Stage: Maides gratefull are to Men,
Our Scenes being such, (like such) accept them then.
| A Pleasant Comedy, called A Mayden-Head Well Lost | |