Epilogue To Henry Ii. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFGEEBBHHIJKK LLMMNNOOODDPPP| Thus you the sad catastrophe have seen | A |
| Occasioned by a mistress and a queen | A |
| Queen Eleanor the proud was French they say | B |
| But English manufacture got the day | B |
| Jane Clifford was her name as books aver | C |
| Fair Rosamond was but her nom de guerre | D |
| Now tell me gallants would you lead your life | E |
| With such a mistress or with such a wife | E |
| If one must be your choice which d' ye approve | F |
| The curtain lecture or the curtain love | G |
| Would ye be godly with perpetual strife | E |
| Still drudging on with homely Joan your wife | E |
| Or take your pleasure in a wicked way | B |
| Like honest whoring Harry in the play | B |
| I guess your minds the mistress would be taking | H |
| And nauseous matrimony sent a packing | H |
| The devil's in you all mankind's a rogue | I |
| You love the bride but you detest the clog | J |
| After a year poor spouse is left i' the lurch | K |
| And you like Haynes return to mother church | K |
| Or if the name of church comes cross your mind | L |
| Chapels of ease behind our scenes you find | L |
| The playhouse is a kind of market place | M |
| One chaffers for a voice another for a face | M |
| Nay some of you I dare not say how many | N |
| Would buy of me a pen'worth for your penny | N |
| E'en this poor face which with my fan I hide | O |
| Would make a shift my portion to provide | O |
| With some small perquisites I have beside | O |
| Though for your love perhaps I should not care | D |
| I could not hate a man that bids me fair | D |
| What might ensue 'tis hard for me to tell | P |
| But I was drenched to day for loving well | P |
| And fear the poison that would make me swell | P |
John Dryden
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