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THE EPILOGUE TO THE USURPER.
The Moral use of Plays, does make us knowActions, which virtues Raise, and vice lay Low:
Teaching the Bad, though even dead, to fear
They may be Reviv'd, to be punish'd here.
As now this Play, by some such Magick Call
Has rais'd a bold Usurper up, to Fall.
And if I may advise you Gentlemen,
Faith let him live, if but to dye agen.
His Crime was horrid, and it is not fit,
One death of the Usurper Expiate it:
Let him dye often, He's content that way,
Still to be punish'd, so you'l spare the Play
Which by our Authors aim was meant to be
Here, a Record of all such Loyalty;
That after long Contests, did safely bring,
Subjects to Rights, and to his Throne our King.
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