Part 26 (2/2)

_Mem._ So ye are pleas'd now Lady?

_Calis._ Now or never.

_Mem._ My cold stiffe carka.s.s would have frozen ye, Wars, wars.

_King._ Ye shall have wars.

_Mem._ My next brave battel I dedicate to your bright honour, Sister, Give me a favour, that the world may know I am your Souldier.

_Calis._ This, and all fair Fortunes.

_Mem._ And he that bears this from me, must strike boldly.

[Cleanthe _kneeling_.

_Calis._ I do forgive thee: be honest; no more wench.

_King._ Come now to Revels, this blest day shall prove The happy crown of n.o.ble Faith and Love. [_Exeunt._

Prologue.

_To please all's impossible, and to despair_ _Ruins our selves, and damps the Writers care:_ _Would we knew what to doe, or say, or when_ _To find the mindes here equal with the men:_ _But we must venture; now to Sea we goe,_ _Faire fortune with us, give us room, and blow;_ _Remember ye're all venturers; and in this Play_ _How many twelve-peaces ye have 'stow'd this day:_ _Remember for return of your delight,_ _We launch, and plough through storms of fear, and spight:_ _Give us your fore-winds fairly, fill our wings,_ _And steer us right, and as the Saylor sings,_ _Loaden with Wealth, on wanton seas, so we_ _Shall make our home-bound-voyage chearfully;_ _And you our n.o.ble Merchants, for your treasure_ _Share equally the fraught, we run for pleasure._

Epilogue.

_Here lyes the doubt now, let our Playes be good,_ _Our own care sailing equall in this Flood;_ _Our preparations new, new our Attire,_ _Yet here we are becalmed still, still i' th' mire,_ _Here we stick fast; Is there no way to clear_ _This pa.s.sage of your judgement, and our fear,_ _No mitigation of that law? Brave friends,_ _Consider we are yours, made for your ends,_ _And every thing preserves it self, each will_ _If not perverse, and crooked, utter still_ _The best of that it ventures in: have care_ _Ev'n for your pleasures sake, of what we are,_ _And do not ruine all, You may frown still,_ _But 'tis the n.o.bler way, to check the will._

APPENDIX.

_In the following references to the text the lines are numbered from the top of the page, including t.i.tles, acts, stage directions, &c., but not, of course, the headline or mere 'rules.' Where, as in the lists of Persons Represented, there are double columns, the right-hand column is numbered after the left._

It has not been thought necessary to record the correction of every turned letter nor the subst.i.tution of marks of interrogation for marks of exclamation and _vice versa_. Full-stops have been silently inserted at the ends of speeches and each fresh speaker has been given the dignity of a fresh line: in the double-columned folio the speeches are frequently run on. Only misprints of interest in the Quartos and the First Folio are recorded.

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