A Prologue To The Scholars. A Comaedy Presented At The White Fryers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFF CCGGEEBB BBBBBBFBGGHHIJ| A gentleman to give us somewhat new | A |
| Hath brought up OXFORD with him to show you | A |
| Pray be not frighted Tho the scaene and gown's | B |
| The Universities the wit's the town's | B |
| The lines each honest Englishman may speake | C |
| Yet not mistake his mother tongue for Greeke | C |
| For stil 'twas part of his vow'd liturgie | D |
| From learned comedies deliver me | E |
| Wishing all those that lov'd 'em here asleepe | F |
| Promising SCHOLARS but no SCHOLARSHIP | F |
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| You'd smile to see how he do's vex and shake | C |
| Speakes naught but if the PROLOGUE do's but take | C |
| Or the first act were past the pikes once then | G |
| Then hopes and joys then frowns and fears agen | G |
| Then blushes like a virgin now to be | E |
| Rob'd of his comicall virginity | E |
| In presence of you all In short you'd say | B |
| More hopes of mirth are in his looks then play | B |
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| These feares are for the noble and the wise | B |
| But if 'mongst you there are such fowle dead eyes | B |
| As can damne unaraign'd cal law their pow'rs | B |
| Judging it sin enough that it is ours | B |
| And with the house shift their decreed desires | B |
| FAIRE still to th' BLACKE BLACKE still to the WHITE FRYERS | B |
| He do's protest he wil sit down and weep | F |
| Castles and pyramids | B |
| No he wil on | G |
| Proud to be rais'd by such destruction | G |
| So far from quarr'lling with himselfe and wit | H |
| That he wil thank them for the benefit | H |
| Since finding nothing worthy of their hate | I |
| They reach him that themselves must envy at | J |
Richard Lovelace
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