 | Hans beer-pot his invisible Comedie of See me, and See me not |  |
The Prologue.
Expect not here a stately Tragedie,Nor Comedie set out, with gracefull shewes,
Of diuers kinds, to please mens greedy eyes:
Yet what we haue, we giue, accept it then
With patience, kindnesse, and with thankefulnesse.
The Authour's no Mechanique, writes not for gaine;
Nor with this dish, thinkes to fill all your tastes,
Onely, for the learned, and iuditious sort;
Yet would please all, and no man here offende.
Here is no gall, nor any bitter stuffe
To quippe mens vices in particular,
Such snarling trickes, are free from him and his:
Then wrest not sense, to what was neuer meant;
If ought be wanting, it is want of skill,
Not want of willing minds to giue content
To high and lowe, to all of each degree;
Then giue me leaue, kind friends, to begge this boone,
That youle be silent, if we doe amisse;
And if ought please you, though we dare not craue
An open plaudit, in our eares to ring:
Yet doe vs right, commend it afterwards;
And though some few of vs, doe take this paines,
Yet one mans head did onely ake for this:
He makes me speake for him, and he for vs;
And altogether ioyne in this request,
That you will heare and see, and say the best.
| Hans beer-pot his invisible Comedie of See me, and See me not | |