ROSALIND.It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue, but it is no moreunhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it be true that goodwine needs no bush, ’tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. Yetto good wine they do use good bushes, and good plays prove the betterby the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in then, that amneither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf ofa good play! I am not furnished like a beggar; therefore to beg willnot become me. My way is to conjure you, and I’ll begin with the women.I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much ofthis play as please you. And I charge you, O men, for the love you bearto women—as I perceive by your simpering, none of you hates them—thatbetween you and the women the play may please. If I were a woman, Iwould kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexionsthat liked me, and breaths that I defied not. And I am sure as many ashave good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths will for my kindoffer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.
[Exit.]