ROSALIND

The heroine, still half in her boy’s disguise, stepping out to close the play and knowing exactly how odd that is.

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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 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! My way is to conjure you, and I’ll begin with the women.turn

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ROSALIND

As You Like It · William Shakespeare · 0:58 · 110 words

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 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! My way is to conjure you, and I’ll begin with the women.

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