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The Epilogue to the Reader.
That this Play's old, 'tis true, but now if anyShould for that cause despise it, we have many
Reasons, both just and pregnant, to maintaine
Antiquity, and those too, not al vaine.
We know and not long since there was a time,
Strong lines were not lookt after, but if rime,
O then 'twas excellent: who but beleeves,
But Doublets with stuft bellies and bigge sleeves,
And those Trunke-hose, which now the age doth scorn,
Were all in fashion, and with frequence worne;
And what's now out of date, who is't can tell,
But it may come in fashion, and sute well?
With rigour therefore judge not, but with reason,
Since what you read was fitted to that season.
FINIS.
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