The works of Sr William Davenant ... Consisting of Those which were formerly Printed, and Those which he design'd for the Press: Now published Out of the Authors Originall Copies |
EPILOGUE.
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The works of Sr William Davenant | ||
EPILOGUE.
[The bus'nes of this Epilogue, is now]
The bus'nes of this Epilogue, is nowTo smooth and stroke the wrinkles from each brow;
To guide severer Judgments (if we cou'd
Be wise enough) untill they thought all good
Which they perhaps dislike; and sure, this were
An over-boldness, rais'd from too much fear.
You have a freedom: which you now may use,
To raise our youthful Poet and his Muse
With a kind doom; who will tread boldly then,
In newer Comick-Socks, this Stage agen.
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