Chapter XXXIV: Epilogue

HISS ’em, and cry ’em down, ’tis all in vain, Incorrigible Scriblers can’t abstain: But impudently i’th’ old Sin engage; Tho doom’d before, nay banish’d from the Stage. Whilst sad Experience our Eyes convinces, That damn’d their Plays which hang’d the _German_ Princess; And we with Ornament set off a Play, Like her drest fine for Execution-day. And faith, I think, with as small hopes to live; Unless kind Gallants the same Grace you’d give Our Comedy as Her; beg a Reprieve. Well, what the other mist, let our Scribe get, A Pardon, for she swears she’s the less Cheat. She never gull’d you Gallants of the Town Of Sum above four Shillings, or half a Crown. 330 Nor does she, as some late great Authors do, Bubble the Audience, and the Players too. Her humble Muse soars not in the High-rode Of Wit transverst, or Baudy _A-la-mode_; Yet hopes her plain and easy Style is such, As your high Censures will disdain to touch. Let her low Sense creep safe from your Bravadoes, Whilst Rotas and Cabals aim at Granadoes.

Notes on the Text.

_433_ The Dutch Lover.

Dramatis Personæ

p. 226 I have added to the Dramatis Personæ ‘Boy, Page to Marcel, Servant to Carlo, A Friar, Swains, Four Shepherds, Four Nymphs, Dutch men and Dutch women.’

Act I: Scene i

p. 227, l. 3 The locale _A Street_ is not marked in 4to 1673 or 1724.

p. 229, l. 4 _Christian._ 1724 ‘christian’.

Act I: Scene ii

p. 231, l. 8 _his nice Honour._ 1724, wrongly, omits ‘nice’.

p. 232, l. 3 _I must still love on._ 1724 omits ‘still’.

p. 233, l. 6 _after long Despairs._ 1724 ‘after long Despair’.

p. 233, l. 21 _too much of Joy._ 1724 ‘Joys’.

p. 233, l. 28 _change thy Wonder._ 4to 1673 ‘Wonders’.

p. 234, l. 23 _Marcel is surprized._ 1724 omits this stage direction.

p. 234, l. 36 _And thou, Antonio, that has betray’d her._ 4to 1673 ‘And thou, Antonio, thou hast betray’d her’. 1724 ‘And thou, Antonio, thou that hast betray’d her’.

p. 235, l. 17 _a kind obliging Lady._ 1724 ‘A kind of obliging Lady’.

p. 236, l. 4 _Am I a Dog._ 4to 1673 wrongly marks this line ‘aside’.

p. 236, l. 10 _I, like the Birds._ 4to 1673 omits ‘the’.

p. 237, l. 1 _Biscay, a Surgeon._ 4to 1673 omits ‘a’.

p. 237, l. 7 _Down of Swans._ 1724 ‘Swan’.

Act I: Scene iii

p. 238, l. 3 _and lik’d him._ 1724 ‘and like him’.

p. 240, l. 2 _this is the first._ 1724 ‘this was the first’.

p. 240, l. 34 _to his heart._ 1724 omits.

p. 241, l. 8 _Prithee instruct._ 4to 1673 as prose.

p. 241, l. 20 _Command me._ 4to 1673 as prose.

p. 242, l. 13 _My Death._ 1724 ‘me death’.

Act II: Scene i

p. 243, l. 8 _undone its Fame._ 1724 ‘undone his Fame’.

p. 244, l. 11 _the next Morning’s Sun._ 4to 1673 ‘th’ Approach of next Morning’s Sun’. 1724 ‘of the next Morning Sun’.

p. 244, l. 31 _They go out._ 4to 1673 omits ‘they’.

Act II: Scene ii

p. 248, l. 33 _Come, come._ 1724 prints this speech as prose.

p. 249, l. 20 _Look at one another and go._ 1724 omits, reading ‘exeunt’.

Act II: Scene iii

p. 251, l. 10 _very unlucky._ 4to 1673 ‘very unluckily’.

Act II: Scene iv

p. 252, l. 21 _Marcel coming towards him jostles him._ 4to 1673 reads ‘Marcel coming towards justles him’.

p. 253, l. 7 _given him some._ 4to 1673 omits ‘him’.

Act II: Scene vi

p. 257, l. 12 _Of your Victims._ 1724 prints this line and the next as prose.

434 p. 257, l. 24 _Offers her a Dagger._ 1724 omits ‘her’.

p. 259, l. 31 _a Pox of her terms._ 1724 ‘A Pox on her terms’.

Act II: Scene vii

p. 261, l. 5 _Haunce van Ezel._ 1724 ‘Hance’.

Act III: Scene i

p. 266, l. 2 _I cry you Mercy._ 1724 ‘I cry your Mercy’.

p. 266, l. 11 _he does not boast._ 4to 1673, wrongly, ‘he does but boast’.

p. 267, l. 36 _But do you find her._ 1724 ‘But do you not find her’.

p. 268, l. 11 _’tis certain ’tis so._ 1724 ’’tis certain so’.

p. 269, l. 19 _lest he surprize us._ 1724 ‘lest he surprizes us’.

Act III: Scene ii

p. 269, l. 27 _Ah, ah, a pox of all Sea-Voyages._ 1724 omits ‘all’.

p. 270, l. 28 _to our Courages._ 1724 ‘Courage’.

p. 271, l. 24 _over a Leg._ 1724 ‘over Leg’.

p. 272, l. 21 _Rummer._ 4to 1673 ‘Romer’.

p. 272, l. 33 _that’s not the Fashion._ 1724 omits ‘not’.

p. 272, l. 34 _I’ll manage her._ 1724 ‘I manage her’.

Act III: Scene iii

p. 273, l. 6 _Scene III. Draws off. A Grove._ 1724 omits ‘Draws off.’ I have added the locale ‘A Grove.’

p. 278, l. 24 _how darst thou._ 1724 ‘how durst thou’.

p. 278, l. 34 _that could not defend._ 4to 1673 omits ‘that’.

Act III: Scene iva

p. 283, l. 34 _you knew not of my Brother’s._ 1724 ‘you know not my Brother’s’ and omits ‘[To Franc.’

p. 284, l. 4 _to see the fair Clarinda [Goes to Clarinda] here, is a Happiness._ 1724 ‘to see the fair Clarinda [Goes to Clarinda.] Here is a Happiness’.

p. 285, l. 7 _Goes out._ 1724 ‘Exit’.

Act IV: Scene i

p. 286, l. 27 _Surlily to him._ 1724 ‘Goes surlily to him’.

p. 287, l. 26 _by instinct. [Aside._ 1724 omits ‘Aside’.

p. 287, l. 27 _Stands looking very simply._ 1724 omits ‘very’.

p. 288, l. 5 _new-fashion’d Spanish Civility._ 1724 omits ‘Spanish’.

p. 289, l. 13 _it made my Stomach wamble._ 1724 ‘it had made’.

p. 289, l. 32 _Gaber._ 1724 ‘Gabor’.

p. 290, l. 28 _Fakes, to entertain._ 1724 ‘Faith’.

p. 291, l. 5 _They two dance._ 1724 ‘They too dance.’

Act IV: Scene ii

p. 296, l. 2 _Runs behind Lovis._ 1724 omits.

p. 297, l. 1 _I declare it here upon._ 1724 ‘Here I declare it upon’.

p. 298, l. 13 _who starts as afraid._ 1724 misreads ‘as aforesaid.’

Act IV: Scene iii

p. 301, l. 6 _Oh, is it bravely done._ 1724 ‘Oh, it is bravely done ...’ and punctuates ‘:’ instead of ‘?’

p. 301, l. 12 _on this Body._ 1724, wrongly, ‘on thy Body’.

p. 301, l. 34 _Takes to his Sword._ 1724 ‘the Sword’.

Act V: Scene i

p. 310, l. 3 _Cleo. Oh my Fears._ 4to 1673 wrongly marks ‘aside’.

p. 312, l. 3 _Weeps._ This stage direction is not given by 4to 1673.

p. 319, l. 1 _How very very wicked._ 1724 ‘How very wicked’.

p. 319, l. 32 _Count d’ Olivarez._ 4to 1673 here and elsewhere when the name occurs ‘Conte De Olivari’s’.

p. 320, l. 17 _if you are pleas’d._ 1724 ‘if your are pleas’d’.