Chapter XXXVI: Epilogue

_Ros._ It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see 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 use good bushes; and good plays prove the better by 5 the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue, nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not furnished 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 10 you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women,—as I perceive by your simpering, none of you hates them,—that between you and the women the play may please. If I were a woman I 15 would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell. [_Exeunt._ 20

~~~~~ Linenotes: _As You Like It_, V, 4.

SCENE IV.] SCENE V. Pope.

Celia.] Colia. F2.

4: _that fear_] _that think_ Hanmer.

_fear they hope...they fear_] _fear their hap...their fear_
Warburton. _fear with hope and hope with fear_ Johnson conj.
_fear, they hope, and now they fear_ Id. conj. _fear their hope,
and know their fear._ Capell (Heath conj.). _feign they hope,
and know they fear._ Blackstone conj. _fear, then hope; and
know, then fear_ Musgrave conj. _fearing hope, and hoping fear_
Mason conj. _hope they fear, then know they fear_ Becket conj.
_fear the hope, and know the fear_ Jackson conj. _fear may hope,
and know they fear_ Harness conj. _fear; they hope, and know
they fear_ Delius (Henley conj.). _fear to hope and know they
fear_ Collier MS.

5: _urged_] _heard_ Collier MS.

21: _your_] Pope. _you your_ Ff.

25: _even._] _even—even so_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[Exeunt R. and C.] Exit Ros. and Celia. Ff.

33: _Whom_] F1 F2. _Who_ F3 F4.

Enter T. and A.] Enter Clowne and Audrey. Ff (after line 33).

35: SCENE VI. Pope.

36, 37: _very strange_] _unclean_ Hanmer (Warburton).

48: _was_] _was not_ Johnson conj.

50: _seventh_] F1 F2. _the seventh_ F3 F4.

53: _you of_] _of you_ Warburton.

55, 56: _binds...breaks_] _bids...bids break_ Warburton.

61: _fool’s_] F4. _fooles_ F1 F3. _foles_ F2.

_and such_] _in such_ Farmer conj.

61, 62: Touch. _According...diseases._] Jaq. _According......sir._ Touch. _And...diseases—_ S. Walker conj.

62: _diseases_] _discourses_ Johnson conj. _phrases_ Mason conj. _discords_ Anon. conj.

76: _I lie_] _I ly’d_ Capell.

76, 77: _so to the_] F2 F3 F4. _so ro_ F1. _so the_ Rowe.

93: _take up_] _make up_ De Quincey MS.

98: _as_] om. Rowe.

104: _Atone_] _Attone_ Ff.

108: _her hand_] F3 F4. _his hand_ F1 F2.

109: _his bosom_] _her bosom_ Malone.

113: _sight_] _shape_ Johnson conj.

114, 115: Printed as one line in Ff.

134: _these things_] _thus we_ Collier MS.

140: _of_] _in_ Collier MS.

142: _daughter, welcome,_] F4. _daughter welcome_, F1 F2 F3. _daughter-welcome_ Theobald.

144: Enter Jaques de Boys.] Rowe. Enter Second Brother. Ff.

158: _them_] Rowe. _him_ Ff.

161: _brothers’_] Capell. _brothers_ F1 F2 F3. _brother’s_ F4. _brothers_, Reed.

169: _states_] _’states_ Collier.

180, 182, 183, 184, 185: Stage directions not in Ff.

181: _deserves_] _deserve_ Pope.

191: _we will_] F2 F3 F4. _wee’l_ F1.

192: _As_] _And_ Reed.

_trust they’ll end, in_] Pope. _trust, they’l end in_ Ff.

[A dance.] Capell. Exit. F1. om. F2 F3 F4.