Prologue To "arvirgus And Philicia Revived." Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDDEEFFGGHHIIAAJJFF KKLMNN| BY LODOWICK CARLELL ESQ | A |
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| SPOKEN BY MR HART | B |
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| With sickly actors and an old house too | C |
| We're match'd with glorious theatres and new | C |
| And with our alehouse scenes and clothes bare worn | D |
| Can neither raise old plays nor new adorn | D |
| If all these ills could not undo us quite | E |
| A brisk French troop is grown your dear delight | E |
| Who with broad bloody bills call you each day | F |
| To laugh and break your buttons at their play | F |
| Or see some serious piece which we presume | G |
| Is fallen from some incomparable plume | G |
| And therefore Messieurs if you'll do us grace | H |
| Send lackeys early to preserve your place | H |
| We dare not on your privilege intrench | I |
| Or ask you why you like them they are French | I |
| Therefore some go with courtesy exceeding | A |
| Neither to hear nor see but show their breeding | A |
| Each lady striving to out laugh the rest | J |
| To make it seem they understood the jest | J |
| Their countrymen come in and nothing pay | F |
| To teach us English where to clap the play | F |
| Civil egad our hospitable land | K |
| Bears all the charge for them to understand | K |
| Mean time we languish and neglected lie | L |
| Like wives while you keep better company | M |
| And wish for your own sakes without a satire | N |
| You'd less good breeding or had more good nature | N |
John Dryden
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