Chapter II: Prologue

How is’t possible to suffice
So many ears, so many eyes?
Some in wit, some in shows
Take delight, and some in clothes;
Some for mirth they chiefly come,
Some for passion,[1]—for both some;
Some for lascivious meetings, that’s their arrant;[2]
Some to detract, and ignorance their warrant.
How is’t possible to please
Opinion toss’d in such wild seas?
Yet I doubt not, if attention
Seize you above, and apprehension
You below, to take things quickly,
We shall both make you sad and tickle ye.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

SIR OLIVER TWILIGHT, _a knight_.
PHILIP TWILIGHT, _his son_.
SANDFIELD, _friend to Philip Twilight, and in love with
Jane_.
SUNSET, _an old gentleman_.
LOW-WATER, _a decayed gentleman_.
SIR GILBERT LAMBSTONE,}
WEATHERWISE, }
PEPPERTON, } _suitors to Lady Goldenfleece_.
OVERDONE, }
BEVERIL, _brother to Mistress Low-water_.
_Dutch Merchant._
_Dutch Boy, his son._
SAVOURWIT, _servant to Sir Oliver Twilight_.
PICKADILL, _Lady Goldenfleece’s fool_.
_Servants, &c._

LADY TWILIGHT.
LADY GOLDENFLEECE, _a rich widow_.
MISTRESS LOW-WATER.
GRACE, _secretly married to Philip Twilight, passing as
daughter to Sir Oliver Twilight, but really Jane
daughter to Sunset_.
JANE, _passing as daughter to Sunset, but really Grace
daughter to Sir Oliver Twilight_.

Scene, LONDON.

NO {WIT/HELP} LIKE A WOMAN’S.

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