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That thou might ft join her band with bis,
Whofe beart within bis bofom is.

Rof. To you I give my self; for I am yours.

To you I give myself; for I am yours.

[To the Duke.

[To Orlando.

Duke Sen. If there be truth in fight, you are my daughter. Orla. If there be truth in fight, you are my Rofalind. Pbe. If fight and shape be true,

Why then, my love adieu !

Rof. I'll have no father, if you be not he;
I'll have no husband, if you be not he;
Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not the.
Hym. Peace, hoa! I bar confufion :
'Tis I muft make conclufion

Of these most strange events:
Here's eight that must take hands,
To join in Hymen's bands,

If truth holds true contents.
You and you no cross fhall part;
You and you are heart in heart;
You to his love muft accord,
Or have a woman to your lord.
You and you are fure together,
As the winter to foul weather:
Whiles a wedlock-hymn we fing,
Feed your felves with questioning:
That reafon wonder may diminish,

How thus we met, and thefe things finish.

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Wedding is great Juno's crown,
O bleffed bond of board and bed!
'Tis Hymen peoples every torun,

High wedlock then be honoured:
Honour, bigh bonour and renown
To Hymen, God of every town!

Duke Sen. O my dear neice, welcome thou art to me; Even daughter, welcome in no less degree.

Phe. I will not eat my word, now thou art mine,

Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.

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SCENE VIII. Enter Jaques de Boys.

Jaq. de B. Let me have audience for a word or two a I am the fecond fon of old Sir Rowland, That bring these tidings to this fair affembly. Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day Men of great worth reforted to this foreft, Addrefs'd a mighty power which were on foot In his own conduct purpofely to take His brother here, and put him to the fword: And to the skirts of this wild wood he came, Where meeting with an old religious man, After fome question with him, was converted Both from his enterprize, and from the world; His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother, And all their lands reftor'd to them again That were with him exil'd.

I do engage my life.

This to be true,

Duke Sen. Welcome, young man :

Thou offer'ft fairly to thy brothers wedding;
To one, his lands with-held; and to the other,
A land it felf at large, a potent Dukedom.
Firft, in this foreft, let us do those ends
That here were well begun, and well begot :
And after, every of this happy number

That have endur'd fhrewd days and nights with us
Shall fhare the good of our returned fortune,
According to the measure of their states.

Mean time, forget this new-fall'n dignity,
And fall into our ruftick revelry:

Play, mufick; and you brides and bridegrooms all,
With measure heap'd in joy, to th' measures fall.

Jaq. Sir, by your patience: if I heard you rightly,
The Duke hath put on a religious life,

And thrown into neglect the pompous court.
Jaq. de B. He hath.

Jaq. To him will I: out of thefe convertites
There is much matter to be heard and learn'd.
You to your former honour I bequeath,

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[To the Duke.

Your patience and your virtue well deferve it:
You to a love that your true faith doth merit; [To Orla.
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You to your land, and love, and great allies;

You to a long, and well-deferved bed;

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Oli. To Syl.

And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage [To the Clown.
Is but for two months victual'd: fo to your pleasures:
I am for other than for dancing measures.

Duke Sen. Stay, Jaques, ftay.

Jaq. To fee no paftime, I: what you would have 'fay to know at your abandon'd cave.

[Exit. Duke Sen. Proceed, proceed; we will begin these rites, As we do truft they'll end, in true delights.

Rof. It is not the fashion to fee the lady the epilogue ; but it is no more unhandfome than to fee the lord the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. Yet to good wine they do ufe good bushes; and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a cafe am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor can infinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not furnish'd like a beggar; therefore to beg will not 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 of this play as pleases them and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women, (as I perceive by your fimpering none of you hate them) to like as much as pleases them, that between you and the women the play may please. If I were a woman, * I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleas'd me, complexions that lik'd me, and breaths that I defy'd not: and I am fure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths, will for my kind offer, when I make curt'fie, bid me farewel. [Exeunt omnes.

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Note, that in this Author's time the parts of women were al ways perform'd by men or boys.

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A Lord, before whom the Play is fuppos'd to be play'd.
CHRISTOPHER SLY, a drunken Tinker.

Hoftefs.

Page, Players, Huntfmen, and other Servants attending on the Lord.

The Perfons of the Play it felfare,

BAPTISTA, Father to Catharina and Bianca, very rich. VINCENTIO, an old Gentleman of Pifa.

LUCENTIO, Son to Vincentio, in love with Bianca. PETRUCHIO, a Gentleman if Verona, a fuitor to Catharina, GREMIO,

HORTENSIO,Pretenders to Bianca.

TRANIO, Servants to Lucentio.

BIONDELLO,

GRUMIO, Servant to Petruchio.

PEDANT, an old fellow fet up to perfonate Vincentio.

CATHARINA, the Shrew.

BIANCA, ber Sifter.

Widow.

Taylor, Haberdashers, with Servants attending on Baptifta

and Petruchio.

SCENE, fometimes in Padua, and fometimes in Petruchio's Houfe in the Country.

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