Shakespeare - First Folio facsimile (1910)/The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight/Epilogue

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Shakespeare - First Folio facsimile (1910)
by William Shakespeare
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight: Epilogue
4242768Shakespeare - First Folio facsimile (1910) — The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight: EpilogueWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The Epilogve.


TIs ten to one, this Play can neuer please
All that are heere: Some come to take their ease,
And sleepe an Act or two; but tbose we feare
W'haue frighted with our Tumpets: so 'tis cleare,
They'll say tis naught. Others to heare the City
Abus'd extreamly, and to cry that's witty,
Which wee haue not done neither; that I feare
All the expected good w'are like to heare.
For this Play at this time, is onely in
The mercifull construction of good women,
For such a one we shew'd 'em: If they smile,
And say twill doe; I know within a while,
All the best men are ours; for 'tis ill hap,
If they hold, when their Ladies bid 'em clap.

FINIS.