Epilogue On The Same Occasion (princess Of Cleves) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGHHIIJJHHKK LLMMNNOOPQRSTTHHUUVV HHHHWWHH| New ministers when first they get in place | A |
| Must have a care to please and that's our case | A |
| Some laws for public welfare we design | B |
| If you the power supreme will please to join | C |
| There are a sort of prattlers in the pit | D |
| Who either have or who pretend to wit | D |
| These noisy sirs so loud their parts rehearse | E |
| That oft the play is silenced by the farce | F |
| Let such be dumb this penalty to shun | G |
| Each to be thought my lady's eldest son | G |
| But stay methinks some vizard mask I see | H |
| Cast out her lure from the mid gallery | H |
| About her all the fluttering sparks are ranged | I |
| The noise continues though the scene is changed | I |
| Now growling sputtering wauling such a clutter | J |
| 'Tis just like puss defendant in a gutter | J |
| Fine love no doubt but ere two days are o'er ye | H |
| The surgeon will be told a woful story | H |
| Let vizard mask her naked face expose | K |
| On pain of being thought to want a nose | K |
| Then for your lacqueys and your train beside | L |
| By whate'er name or title dignified | L |
| They roar so loud you'd think behind the stairs | M |
| Tom Dove and all the brotherhood of bears | M |
| They're grown a nuisance beyond all disasters | N |
| We've none so great but their unpaying masters | N |
| We beg you Sirs to beg your men that they | O |
| Would please to give you leave to hear the play | O |
| Next in the playhouse spare your precious lives | P |
| Think like good Christians on your bearns and wives | Q |
| Think on your souls but by your lugging forth | R |
| It seems you know how little they are worth | S |
| If none of these will move the warlike mind | T |
| Think on the helpless whore you leave behind | T |
| We beg you last our scene room to forbear | H |
| And leave our goods and chattels to our care | H |
| Alas our women are but washy toys | U |
| And wholly taken up in stage employs | U |
| Poor willing tits they are but yet I doubt | V |
| This double duty soon will wear them out | V |
| Then you are watched besides with jealous care | H |
| What if my lady's page should find you there | H |
| My lady knows t' a tittle what there's in ye | H |
| No passing your gilt shilling for a guinea | H |
| Thus gentlemen we have summed up in short | W |
| Our grievances from country town and court | W |
| Which humbly we submit to your good pleasure | H |
| But first vote money then redress at leisure | H |
John Dryden
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