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EPILOGVE.
Scania (that spoke the Prologue) now delivers the Epilogue, apparelled as in the last Scene, with her Sword and Belt in her hand.Though our Author cares not, how his Play may take:
Yet, cause he purposes not to forsake
In his affection, any Worthy here;
He hath sent me 'fore the Court breake up, to appeare
For him agen; to see how it hath pleas'd:
For, nothwithstanding he meanes to be eas'd;
For ever of th' like taske: Yet, from his heart
He wishes, you and he sho'd fairely part.
And this he more (for him) desir'd me say:
Where others spend a yeare about a Play
(Picking a sentence here, a word from thence)
This Tragie-Comedy with the expence
Of lesse then two Moneths time he pen'd: For he
's not too ambitious of the dignitie
Of a prime Poet; which he needs must know,
The Muses chiefe (Apollo) doth bestow
But very rarely. Himselfe he knowes too
Better i'th' Art, then some that to be so
Thought worthy, maligne him. If this please you,
It's all he'll aske of Hellicon: Adieu.
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