That, when I am in heaven, I shall desire lords; Ye must all see the queen, and she must thank ye, EPILOGUE. 'Tis ten to one, this play can never please All that are here: Some come to take their ease, And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear, We have frighted with our trumpets; so, 'tis clear, They'll say, 'tis naught: others, to hear the city Abus'd extremely, and to cry, that's witty! Which we have not done neither: that, I fear, All the expected good we are like to hear For this play at this time, is only in The merciful construction of good women; For such a one we show'd them; If they smile, And say, 'twill do, I know, within a-while All the best men are ours; for 'tis ill hap, If they hold, when their ladies bid them clap. ....... .. Act III. Scene II. Pan. If ever you prove false to one another, since I have taken such pains to bring you together, let all pitiful goers-between be called to the world's end after my name, call them all-Pandars; let all inconstant men be Troilus's, all false women Cressids, and all brokersbetween Pandars! say, amen. Troi. Amen. Cre. Amen. |