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A SECOND PROLOGUE Enters.
2.—Hold; Would you admit
For Judges all you see within the Pit?
1.
Whom would he then Except, or on what Score?
2.
All, who (like him) have Writ ill Plays before:
For they, like Thieves condemn'd, are Hang-men made,
To execute the Members of their Trade.
All that are Writing now he would disown;
But then he must Except, ev'n all the Town.
All Chol'rique, losing Gamesters, who in spight
Will Damn to Day, because they lost last Night.
All Servants whom their Mistress's scorn upbraids;
All Maudlin Lovers, and all Slighted Maids:
All who are out of Humour, or Severe;
All, that want Wit, or hope to find it here.
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