Enter HYMEN, ROSALIND in Women's Cloaths, and

CELIA.

Still Mufic.

Hym. Then is there mirth in Heaven,
When earthly things hade even
Atone together.

Good Duke receive thy daughter,
Hymen from heaven brought her,
Yea, brought her hither,

That thou mighteft join her hand with his,
Whofe heart within his bofom is.

Rof. To you I give myself; for I am yours.

[To the Duke. To you I give myself, for I am yours. [To Orla. Duke Sen. If there be truth in fight, you are my

daughter.

Orla. If there be truth in fight you are my RoPhe. If fight and shape be true,

Why then my love adieu!

Ref. 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 must 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 croís fhall part;'.
You and you are heart in heart;
You to his love must accord,
Or have a woman to your Lord,
You and you are fure together,
As the winter to foul weather:

[falind

Whiles a wedlock-hymn we fing,.
Feed yourselves with questioning:
That reafon wonder may diminish,
How thus we met, and these things finish..

SONG.

Wedding is great Juno's crown,

O bleffed bond of board and bed!
'Tis Hymen peoples every town,
High wedlock then be honoured:
Honour, high honour and renown
To Hymen, God of every town!

Duke Sen. O my dear niece, welcome thou art to Even daughter-welcome, in no lefs degree.. [me,. Phe. I will not eat my word, now thou art mine; Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.

Enter JAQUES DE BOYS.

Jaq. de Boys. Let me have audience for a word

or two:

I am the fecond fon of old Sir Rowland,.
That bring thefe tidings to this fair affembly..
Duke Frederick hearing how that every day
Men of great worth referted to this foreft,.
Addreffed a mighty power, which were on foot
In his own conduct, purposely 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 queftion with him, was converted
Both from his enterprize, and from the world;
His crown bequeathing to his banished brother,
And all their lands restored to them again,
That were with him exiled. This to be true,
I do engage my life.

Duke Sen. Welcome, young man,

Thou offereft fairly to thy brother's wedding;
To one, his lands with-held, and to the other,
A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.
First, in this foreft, let us do these ends
That here were well begun, and well begot
And, after, every of this happy number,

That have endured 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-fallen dignity,
And fall into our ruftic revelry:

Play, mufic; and you brides and bridegrooms all,
With measure heaped in joy, to the 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 pompeus court.
Jaq. de B. He hath.

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

[To the Dukes Your patience and your virtue well deferve it. You to a love, that your true faith doth merit;

[To Orla

You to your land, and love, and great allies;

[To Oli You to a long and well deserved bed; [To Silv. And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage [To the Clowne Is but for two months victualled: fo to your plea

fures,

I am for other than for dancing measures.

Duke Sen. Stay, Jaques, stay.

Jaq. To fee no paftime, I what you would have,

I'll stay to know at your abandoned cave. [Exit.

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Duke Sen. Proceed, proceed; we will begin these rites,

As, we do truft they'll end in true delights.

Rof. It is not the fafhion 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: buthes; 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 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 you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as pleases you: and I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women, (as I perceive, by your fimpering, none of you hate them) that between you and the women, the play may please. If I were a woman, I would kifs as many of you as had beards that pleafed me, complexions that liked 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'fy, bid me farewel. [Exeunt omnes.

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