A collection and selection of English prologues and epilogues [vol 2] [T145232] [ecco]

DMI number:

1342

Publication Date:

1779

Volume Number:

2 of 4

ESTC number:

T145232

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW113372976

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BOD

Full Title:

A | COLLECTION AND SELECTION | OF | ENGLISH | PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES. | COMMENCING WITH | [i]SHAKESPEARE[/i], | AND CONCLUDING WITH | [i]GARRICK.[/i] | IN FOUR VOLUMES. | VOLUME II. | [epigraph] | [rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR | FIELDING AND WALKER, PATERNOSTER-ROW. | MDCCLXXIX.

Epigraph:

Why there should be an Epilogue to a Play, | I know no cause. The old and usual way, | Why they were made, was to intreat the grace, | Of such as were spectators. - | EPIL. TO THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY.

Place of Publication:

London

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Half title: A | COLLECTION AND SELECTION | OF | ENGLISH | PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES. | [rule] | EPILOGUES .

Comments:

Contents: prose pp. 3-4, 4-6, 16, 30-31. Duplicate poem: poem 3723 appears twice in this miscellany, pp. 87-88 + 195-196.

Other matter:

Back matter: Index [8pp.]

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Title:

A collection and selection of English prologues and epilogues [vol 3] [T145232] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1779

ESTC No:

T145232

Volume:

3 of 4

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Title:

A collection and selection of English prologues and epilogues [vol 4] [T145232] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1779

ESTC No:

T145232

Volume:

4 of 4

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

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First Line:

Now my charms are all over thrown

Page No:

pp.1-2

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Tempest. Spoken By Prospero.

Attribution:

Shakespeare

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

If we shadows have offended

Page No:

p.2

Poem Title:

Epilogue To A Midsummer-Night's Dream. Spoken By Puck.

Attribution:

Shakespeare

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

The king's a beggar now the play is done

Page No:

p.4

Poem Title:

Epilogue to All's Well That Ends Well.

Attribution:

Shakespeare

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Thus far with rough and all unable pen

Page No:

p.6

Poem Title:

Epilogue To King Henry The Fifth.

Attribution:

Shakespeare

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

Tis ten to one this play can never please

Page No:

p.7

Poem Title:

Epilogue To King Henry The Eighth.

Attribution:

Shakespeare

Attributed To:

William Shakespeare

First Line:

I spake much in the prologue for the play

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

A Second To The Same.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Why there should be an epilogue to a play

Page No:

p.8

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Custom Of The Country.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

The play is done yet our suit never ends

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Spanish Curate.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Tis not the hands or smiles or common way

Page No:

p.9

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Elder Brother.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Here lies the doubt now let our plays be good

Page No:

pp.10-11

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Mad Lover.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

I am not cured yet thoroughly for believe

Page No:

p.10

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Humorous Lieutenant.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Though something well assured few here repent

Page No:

p.11

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Loyal Subject.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Good night our worthy friends and may you part

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Rule a Wife and Have A Wife.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

I now should wish another had my place

Page No:

p.12

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The False One.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Gentlemen | I am sent forth to enquire what you decree

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Little French Lawyer.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

We would fain please ye and as fain be pleased

Page No:

pp.13-14

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Valentinian.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

We have not held you long nor do I see

Page No:

p.14

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Chances.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Still doubtful and perplexed too whether he

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

Prologue [sic] To The Lover's Progress.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

We have your favours gentlemen and you

Page No:

p.15

Poem Title:

Epilogue To A Wife For A Month.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

If you mislike as you shall ever be

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Captain.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Our author fears there are some rebel hearts

Page No:

p.17

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love's Cure; Or, The Martial Maid.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

The tamer's tamed but so as nor the men

Page No:

p.18

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Woman's Prize. Or, The Tamer Tamed.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

The monuments of virtue and desert

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

Prologue [sic] to the Noble Gentleman.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

There is no coronation today

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Coronation. Spoken By The Queen.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Tis ended by my hopes and fears begin

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Coxcomb.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

I would ask ye how ye like the play

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

We need not tell you gallants that this night

Page No:

p.22

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Wit At Several Weapons. At The Reviving of this Play.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

Now as the husbandman whose costs and pain

Page No:

p.23

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Four Plays, Or, Moral Representations In One.

Attribution:

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed To:

Francis Beaumont

John Fletcher

First Line:

We've reason to be doubtful whether he

Page No:

p.24

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Emperor Of The East.

Attribution:

Massinger.

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

But your allowance and in that our all

Page No:

p.25

Poem Title:

Epilogue To A New Way To Pay Old Debts.

Attribution:

Massinger.

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Pray you gentlemen keep your seats something I would

Page No:

pp.25-26

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Bashful Lover.

Attribution:

Massinger.

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

I am left to enquire then to relate

Page No:

p.26

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Guardian.

Attribution:

Massinger.

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Custom and that's a law we must obey

Page No:

p.27

Poem Title:

Epilogue To A Very Woman.

Attribution:

Massinger.

Attributed To:

Philip Massinger

First Line:

Gentles be it known to you since I went in

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Cynthia's Revels. Spoken By Mercury.

Attribution:

Jonson.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Thus have you seen the maker's double scope

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Staple of News.

Attribution:

Jonson.

Attributed To:

Benjamin Jonson

First Line:

Oh wearisome condition of humanity

Page No:

p.32

Poem Title:

Chorus Sacerdotum. To The Tragedy of Mustapha.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now expectation hath at full received

Page No:

p.33

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your modest silence full of heedy stillness

Page No:

p.34

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Malcontent.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

An honest crew disposed to be merry

Page No:

p.35

Poem Title:

Epilogue To A Woman Kill'd With Kindness.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh may you find in this our pageant here

Page No:

p.36

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Eastward Hoe. Spoken By Quicksilver.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You've seen the muse's looking glass ladies fair

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Muse's Looking Glass. Roscius Solus.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though we are now no beggars of the crew

Page No:

p.37

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Merry Beggars. Spoken By Meriel.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

And how and how in faith a pretty plot

Page No:

pp.38-39

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Heir.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Our heir is fallen from her inheritance

Page No:

p.38

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Heir.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To you most royal pair whose lives have brought

Page No:

p.39

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Shepherd's Holiday. Addressed To The King And Queen.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Through many hazards love hath found a way

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love Will Find Out The Way.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You see what shifts we are enforced to try

Page No:

pp.40-41

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Indian Queen. Spoken By Montezuma.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

To all and singular in this full meeting

Page No:

pp.41-42

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Indian Emperor. Spoken By A Mercury.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Our poet something doubtful of his fate

Page No:

pp.42-44

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Maiden Queen.

Attribution:

Written By A Person Of Honour, And Spoken By Nell Gwynn.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As country vicars when the sermon's done

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Sir Martin Mar-all.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Hold are you mad you damned confounded dog

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Tyrannick Love. Spoken By Nell Gwyn, When She Was To Be Carried Off Dead By The Bearers.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

They who have best succeeded on the stage

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Conquest of Granada.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

A poet once the spartans led to fight

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Amboyna.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

A pretty task and so I told the fool

Page No:

pp.49-50

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Aureng-Zebe.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Poets like disputants when reasons fail

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

Epilogue To All For Love Or, The World Well Lost.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

I beg a boon that ere you all disband

Page No:

pp.52-55

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Limberham. Spoken By Limberham.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

What Sophocles could undertake alone

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Oedipus.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

These cursed critics put me in a passion

Page No:

pp.55-56

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Troilus And Cressida, Spoken By Thersites.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

There's none I'm sure who is a friend to love

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Spanish Fryar.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Much time and trouble this poor play has cost

Page No:

pp.58-59

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Duke of Guise. Spoken By Mrs. Cook.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

After our Aesop's fable shown today

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Albion And Albanius. Written In The Reign Of James II.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

I quaked at heart for fear the royal fashion

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Don Sebastian. Spoken Betwixt Antonio and Morayma.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

I'm thinking and it almost makes me mad

Page No:

pp.63-64

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Amphitryon. Spoken By Phaedra.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

This day the poet bloodily inclined

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Cleomenes; Or, The Spartan Hero. Spoken By Mrs. Bracegirdle, Who Performed The Part Of Cleora.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

I've had today a dozen billet doux

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

Epilogue To King Arthur, An Opera. Spoken By Mrs. Bracegirdle, In The Character Of Emmeline.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Now in good manners nothing should be said

Page No:

pp.68-69

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love Triumphant. Spoken By Mrs. Mountfort, Who Performed The Part Of Dalinda.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Though what our prologue said was sadly true

Page No:

pp.69-71

Poem Title:

Epilogue. Spoken At The Opening Of The New House, March 26, 1674.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

As Jupiter I made my court in vain

Page No:

pp.71-72

Poem Title:

Epilogue, Intended To Have Been Spoken By The Lady Hen. Mar. Wentworth, Who Performed The Part Of Jupiter, When Callisto Was Acted At Court.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Most modern wits such monstrous fools have shown

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Man Of Mode: Or, Sir Fopling Flutter, By Sir George Etheridge, 1761.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

You've seen a pair of faithful lovers die

Page No:

pp.74-75

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Mithridates, King of Pontus, By Mr. N. Lee, 1678.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Ladies the beardless author of this day

Page No:

pp.75-76

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Tamerlane The Great. By Mr. Saunders, 1681. Spoken By An Actress.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

We act by fits and starts like drowning men

Page No:

pp.77-78

Poem Title:

Epilogue For The King's House.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

A virgin poet was served up today

Page No:

pp.78-80

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Loyal Brother: Or, The Persian Prince, By Mr. Southerne, 1682.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Oft has our poet wished this happy seat

Page No:

pp.80-81

Poem Title:

Epilogue, Spoken At Oxford, By Mrs. Marshall.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

No poor Dutch peasant winged with all his fear

Page No:

pp.82-83

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The University Of Oxford. Spoken By Mr. Hart, At The Acting Of The Silent Woman.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Our hero's happy in the play's conclusion

Page No:

pp.83-85

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Constantine The Great, By Mr. N. Lee, 1684.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

New ministers when first they get in place

Page No:

pp.85-87

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The King And Queen, Upon The Union Of The Two Companies, In 1686.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

You saw our wife was chaste yet thoroughly tried

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

An Epilogue, [The Play Not Named.]

Attribution:

Dryden [on p. 87] Southerne [on p. 195]

Attributed To:

John Dryden

Thomas Southerne

First Line:

Like some raw sophister that mounts the pulpit

Page No:

pp.89-90

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Husband His Own Cuckold, By Mr. John Dryden, Junior, 1696.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

Perhaps the parson stretched a point too far

Page No:

pp.91-92

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Pilgrim.

Attribution:

Dryden.

Attributed To:

John Dryden

First Line:

If mighty sir your goodness will do grace

Page No:

p.93

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Siege Of Rhodes. Addressed To The King, At Whitehall.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Though bashfully we fear to give offence

Page No:

p.94

Poem Title:

Second Epilogue To The Same.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

What ere I shift my clothes can he not stay

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Villain.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Too late we told you some two hours ago

Page No:

pp.96-97

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The First Day's Entertainment At Rutland-House, By Declamations And Music, After The Manner Of The Ancients.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Since you at land no more can hurried be

Page No:

pp.97-98

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Play-House To Be Lett.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Our poet in his fury hath professed

Page No:

p.99

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Unfortunate Lovers.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

I am so constant to you gentlemen

Page No:

pp.100-101

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Same. Spoken At The Duke's Theatre.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The office of an epilogue is now

Page No:

p.100

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Wits. Spoken At Black-Friars.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Ladies who fine as fi'pence are

Page No:

pp.102-105

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Man's The Master. In A Ballad, Sung By Two.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Troth gentlemen you must vouchsafe a while

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love And Honour.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

Unto the masculine I can afford

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Platonic Lovers.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

For your own sakes dear hearts you had not best

Page No:

p.106

Poem Title:

Epilogue To News From Plymouth. Spoken By Sir Furious Inland.

Attribution:

Sir William Davenant.

Attributed To:

Sir William Davenant

First Line:

The fierce Melantius was content you see

Page No:

p.107

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Maid's Tragedy Altered. Spoken By The Person Who Acted The King.

Attribution:

Waller.

Attributed To:

Edmund Waller

First Line:

The play great sir is done yet we need fear

Page No:

p.108

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Guardian. Spoken Before The Prince, Afterwards Charles II.

Attribution:

Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Methinks a vision bids me silence break

Page No:

p.109

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Cutter Of Coleman-Street. Spoken By The Person Who Acted Cutter.

Attribution:

Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

The madness of your people and the rage

Page No:

p.110

Poem Title:

Second Epilogue To The Same. Spoken At Court.

Attribution:

Cowley.

Attributed To:

Abraham Cowley

First Line:

Sir Frederic now I am revenged of you

Page No:

pp.111-112

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love In A Tub. Spoken By The Widow.

Attribution:

Sir George Etherege.

Attributed To:

Sir George Etherege

First Line:

Thrice happy they that never writ before

Page No:

pp.112-113

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love.

Attribution:

Lee.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

What is this wit which Cowley could not name

Page No:

p.114

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Princess Of Cleve.

Attribution:

Lee.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

No cringing sirs the poet's champion I

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Lucius Junius Brutus. Spoken By Mrs. Barry.

Attribution:

Lee.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

Well then be you his judges what pretence

Page No:

pp.117-118

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Caesar Borgia.

Attribution:

Lee.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

To this learned audience gladly we submit

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Sophonisba. Spoken By Sophonisba, At Its Exhibition At Oxford.

Attribution:

Lee.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

How dull how grave and how precise ye sit

Page No:

p.120

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Tragedy Of Nero.

Attribution:

Lee.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

Your servant gentlemen tis a long time

Page No:

pp.121-122

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Gloriana; Or, The Court Of Augustus Caesar. Spoken By Mr. Haynes.

Attribution:

Lee.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

Whatever they mean yet ought they to be cursed

Page No:

pp.122-124

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Rival Queens; Or, Alexander The Great.

Attribution:

Lee.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

How wise they are that can with patience bear

Page No:

pp.124-126

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Massacre Of Paris.

Attribution:

Lee.

Attributed To:

Nathaniel Lee

First Line:

The banished cavaliers a roving blade

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The First Part Of The Rover; Or, The Banish'd Cavaliers.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Poets are kings of wit and you appear

Page No:

pp.128-129

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Second Part Of The Rover.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Hiss them and cry them down tis all in vain

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Dutch Lover.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

The vizor's off and now I dare appear

Page No:

pp.130-132

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Round-Heads; Or, The Good Old Cause. Spoken By Lady Desbro.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

With late success being blessed I'm come again

Page No:

pp.132-133

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Abdelazer; Or, The Moor's Revenge. Spoken By Little Mrs. Ariell.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

After our showing play of mighty pains

Page No:

pp.133-135

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Young King. Spoken By Mrs. Barry.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

My plot I fear will take but with a few

Page No:

pp.135-136

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The City Heiress.

Attribution:

Written By A Person Of Quality: Spoken By Mrs. Boteler.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

So hard the times are and so thin the town

Page No:

pp.137-138

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Feign'd Courtezans.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Sir Timothy gallants at last is come

Page No:

pp.138-139

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Town-Fop. Spoken By Sir Timothy Tawdrey.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

I come not a petitioner to sue

Page No:

pp.139-141

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The False Count.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Long have we turned the point of our just rage

Page No:

pp.141-143

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Lucky Chance.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

We charged you boldly in our first advance

Page No:

p.143

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Forced Marriage. Spoken By A Woman.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

I here and there overheard a coxcomb cry

Page No:

pp.144-145

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Sir Patient Fancy. Spoken By Mrs. E. Guyn.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Gallants you have so long been absent hence

Page No:

pp.146-147

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Widow Ranter.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

With our old plays as with old wife it fares

Page No:

pp.147-148

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Emperor Of The Moon.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Ladies the prince was kind at last

Page No:

pp.149-150

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Amorous Prince. Spoken By Cloris.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

We're grown impatient to be out of pain

Page No:

pp.150-151

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Younger Brother.

Attribution:

Mrs. Behn.

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

Physicians tell us that in every age

Page No:

p.152

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Sullen Lovers.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

The mighty prince of poets learned Ben

Page No:

pp.153-154

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Humourists.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

As a young merchant who had scaped of late

Page No:

pp.154-155

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Royal Shepherdess.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

Now you who think you are judges of the pit

Page No:

pp.155-157

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Virtuoso.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

Whatever the poet has deserved from you

Page No:

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Psyche.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

Through all the perils of the play I've run

Page No:

pp.159-160

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Libertine. Spoken By Jacomo.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

A play without a wedding made in spite

Page No:

pp.161-162

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Epsom-Wells.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

If there were hopes that ancient solid wit

Page No:

pp.162-163

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Timon Of Athens.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

When sieges now by poets are prepared

Page No:

pp.164-165

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Miser.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

In troubled times like these the ancients chose

Page No:

pp.165-166

Poem Title:

Epilogue To A True Widow.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

A skilful mistress uses wondrous art

Page No:

pp.166-167

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Lancashire Witches. Spoken By Mrs. Barry And Teague.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

Who dares deny the poet his applause

Page No:

pp.168-169

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Woman-Captain. Spoken By Mrs. Barry, Who Acted The Woman-Captain.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

Ye mighty scourers of these narrow seas

Page No:

pp.169-170

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Squire Of Alsatia.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

I was our author's advocate last year

Page No:

pp.171-172

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Bury Fair. Spoken By Mrs. Mountford.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

Methinks I hear some ladies nicely wise

Page No:

pp.172-174

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Amorous Bigot. Spoken By Mrs. Bracegirdle.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

Now lady mothers you who frown today

Page No:

pp.174-176

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Scowrers.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

Enough of mirth the sportive scene is done

Page No:

pp.176-177

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Volunteers. Spoken By One In Deep Mourning.

Attribution:

Shadwell

Attributed To:

Thomas Shadwell

First Line:

To you the judges learned in stage laws

Page No:

pp.178-179

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Plain Dealer. Spoken By The Widow Blackacre.

Attribution:

Wycherley.

Attributed To:

William Wycherley

First Line:

Now you the vigorous who daily here

Page No:

pp.179-180

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Country-Wife. Spoken By Mrs. Knep.

Attribution:

Wycherley.

Attributed To:

William Wycherley

First Line:

The ladies first I am to compliment

Page No:

pp.181-182

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Gentleman Dancing-Master. Spoken By Flirt.

Attribution:

Wycherley.

Attributed To:

William Wycherley

First Line:

Now my brisk brothers of the pit you'll say

Page No:

p.183

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love In A Wood. Spoken By Dapperwit.

Attribution:

Wycherley.

Attributed To:

William Wycherley

First Line:

Now who says poets don't in blood delight

Page No:

p.184

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Alcibiades. Sopken [sic] By Mrs. Mary Lee.

Attribution:

Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Now what do ye think my message hither means

Page No:

p.185

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Don Carlos, Prince of Spain. Spoken By A Girl.

Attribution:

Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

How little do you guess what I'm to say

Page No:

pp.186-187

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Titus And Berenice. With A Farce Call'd The Cheats Of Scapin. Spoken By Mrs. Mary Lee, When She Was Out Of Humour.

Attribution:

Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

Well sirs if now my spouse and I should part

Page No:

pp.188-189

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Friendship In Fashion. Spoken By Mrs. Barrey.

Attribution:

Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

With the discharge of passions much oppressed

Page No:

pp.189-190

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Soldier's Fortune.

Attribution:

Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

It is not long since in the noisy pit

Page No:

pp.191-192

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Atheist; Or The Second Part Of The Soldier's Fortune.

Attribution:

Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

You've seen one orphan ruined here and I

Page No:

pp.192-193

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Venice Preserv'd.

Attribution:

Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

The text is done and now for application

Page No:

pp.193-194

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Venice Preserv'd.

Attribution:

Otway.

Attributed To:

Thomas Otway

First Line:

If novelty has any charms to move

Page No:

pp.196-197

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Sir Antony Love. Spoken By Mrs. Botelar.

Attribution:

Southerne

Attributed To:

Thomas Southerne

First Line:

My character not being much in vogue

Page No:

pp.198-199

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Wives Excuse. Spoken By Mrs. Friendall.

Attribution:

Southerne

Attributed To:

Thomas Southerne

First Line:

See the effects of a poor maid's last prayer

Page No:

pp.199-200

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Maid's Last Prayer.

Attribution:

Southerne

Attributed To:

Thomas Southerne

First Line:

Now tell me when you saw the lady die

Page No:

pp.201-202

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Fatal Marriage. Spoken By Mrs. Verbruggen.

Attribution:

Southerne

Attributed To:

Thomas Southerne

First Line:

You see we try all shapes and shifts and arts

Page No:

pp.202-203

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Oroonoko. Spoken By Mrs. Verbruggen.

Attribution:

Southerne

Attributed To:

Thomas Southerne

First Line:

Poets fine titles for themselves may find

Page No:

pp.203-205

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Fate of Capua.

Attribution:

Southerne

Attributed To:

Thomas Southerne

First Line:

Our author's muse a numerous issue boasts

Page No:

pp.205-206

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Spartan Dame.

Attribution:

Southerne

Attributed To:

Thomas Southerne

First Line:

Well you have seen my future spouse and me

Page No:

pp.207-208

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Money The Mistres. Spoken By Mariana.

Attribution:

Southerne

Attributed To:

Thomas Southerne

First Line:

Our bard shall end tonight as he began

Page No:

pp.208-209

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Iphigenia.

Attribution:

Dennis.

Attributed To:

John Dennis

First Line:

Thus have we shown what we proposed to show

Page No:

pp.209-210

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Liberty Asserted.

Attribution:

Dennis.

Attributed To:

John Dennis

First Line:

Well sirs you've seen Virginia die ye powers

Page No:

pp.211-212

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Appius And Virginia.

Attribution:

Dennis.

Attributed To:

John Dennis

First Line:

The female author who recites today

Page No:

pp.212-214

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Lucius. Spoken By Mrs. Horton.

Attribution:

Prior.

Attributed To:

Matthew Prior

First Line:

The spleen vapours and this doleful play

Page No:

pp.214-215

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Ambitious Step-Mother. Spoken By Mrs. Bracegirdle.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Too well we saw what must have been our fate

Page No:

pp.216-217

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Tamerlane. Spoken By Mrs. Bracegirdle.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

You see the tripping dame could find no favour

Page No:

pp.218-219

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Fair Penitent. Spoken By Lavinia.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Just going to take water at the stairs

Page No:

pp.219-220

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Ulysses.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

The business of the day being now gone through

Page No:

pp.221-222

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Royal Convert. Spoken By Ethelinda.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Ye modest matrons all ye virtuous wives

Page No:

pp.222-213

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Jane Shore. Spoken By Mrs. Oldfield.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

The palms of virtue heroes oft have worn

Page No:

pp.224-225

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Lady Jane Gray.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

From Fletcher's great original today

Page No:

pp.225-226

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Inconstant.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

As some brave knight who once with spear and shield

Page No:

pp.227-228

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love For Love. Spoken By Mrs. Barry And Mrs. Bracegirdle For Mr. Betterton's Benefit, April 7, 1709.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

Well twas a narrow scape my lover made

Page No:

pp.229-230

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Cruel Gift. Spoken By Mrs. Oldfield.

Attribution:

Rowe.

Attributed To:

Nicholas Rowe

First Line:

What will the galleries nay boxes say

Page No:

pp.231-232

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Heroic Love.

Attribution:

Lansdowne.

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Each in his turn the poet and the priest

Page No:

pp.233-234

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Jew Of Venice.

Attribution:

Lansdowne.

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

I who have been the poet's spark to day

Page No:

p.233

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Once A Lover; And Always A Lover. Spoken By Angelica.

Attribution:

Lansdowne.

Attributed To:

George Granville

First Line:

Now gallants for the author first to you

Page No:

pp.235-236

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love's Last Shift. Spoken By Miss Cross, Who Sung Cupid.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

An epilogue's a tax on authors laid

Page No:

pp.236-237

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love Makes A Man.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Mongst all the rules the ancients had in vogue

Page No:

pp.237-238

Poem Title:

Epilogue To She Wou'd, And She Wou'd Not.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Conquest and freedom are at length our own

Page No:

pp.239-240

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Careless Husband.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Hold hold sir Bullock you must stay dear rogue

Page No:

pp.241-243

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Rival Fools. Spoken By Mr. Pinkethman and Mr. Bullock.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Well sirs I know not how the play may pass

Page No:

pp.243-244

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Double Gallant.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Well sirs | I'm come to tell you that my fears are over

Page No:

pp.245-246

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Heroic Daughter. Spoken By Ximena.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

How wild how frantic is the vain essay

Page No:

pp.247-248

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Non-Juror. Spoken By Maria.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

The time is come the Roman bard foretold

Page No:

pp.249-250

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Refusal.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Methinks I hear some powdered critics say

Page No:

pp.250-252

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Provok'd Husband.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Since songs to plays are nowadays

Page No:

pp.252-253

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love In A Riddle. Sung By Aegon.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Well sirs you've seen a prodigy today

Page No:

pp.254-255

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Perolla And Izadora. Spoken By Mrs. Oldfield.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Was it not bold from stated rules to rove

Page No:

pp.255-256

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Caesar In Egypt.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Of all the helps for wit so much in vogue

Page No:

pp.257-258

Poem Title:

Epilogue to King John.

Attribution:

Cibber.

Attributed To:

Colley Cibber

First Line:

Gentlemen and ladies | these people have regaled you here today

Page No:

pp.259-260

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Relapse. Spoken By Lord Foppington.

Attribution:

Vanbrugh

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

No epilogue I swear I know of none

Page No:

pp.261-262

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Provoked Wife. Spoken By Lady Brute And Belinda.

Attribution:

Vanbrugh

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

What say you sirs do ye think my lady'll scape

Page No:

pp.262-263

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The False Friend. Spoken By Jacintha.

Attribution:

Vanbrugh

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

I've heard wise men in politics lay down

Page No:

pp.263-264

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Confederacy. Spoken By Clarissa.

Attribution:

Vanbrugh

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

I'm thinking now good husbands are so few

Page No:

pp.265-266

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Mistake. Spoken By Isabella.

Attribution:

Vanbrugh

Attributed To:

Sir John Vanbrugh

First Line:

As a rash girl who will all hazards run

Page No:

pp.266-267

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Old Batchelor.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Could poets but foresee how plays would take

Page No:

pp.268-269

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Double Dealer.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Sure providence at first designed this place

Page No:

pp.269-271

Poem Title:

Epilogue To Love For Love. Spoken At The Opening Of The New House, By Mrs. Bracegirdle.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

The tragedy thus done I am you know

Page No:

pp.271-272

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Mourning Bride. Spoken By Almeira.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

After our epilogue this crowd dismisses

Page No:

pp.272-273

Poem Title:

Epilogue To The Way Of The World.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

First Line:

Whatever future fate our house may find

Page No:

pp.274-275

Poem Title:

Epilogue At The Opening Of The Queen's Theatre In The Hay-Market, With An Italian Pastoral: Spoken By Mrs. Bracegirdle.

Attribution:

Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve