Poet Richard Lovelace

Richard Lovelace

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The Epilogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDEFGHHIJ KKLLKKMMKK BBNNCC GGOK KKPPCC

The stubborne author of the trifle crimeA
That just now cheated you of two hours' timeA
Presumptuous it lik't him began to growB
Carelesse whether it pleased you or noB
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But we who ground th' excellence of a playC
On what the women at the dores wil sayC
Who judge it by the benches and affordD
To take your money ere his oath or wordE
His SCHOLLARS school'd sayd if he had been wiseF
He should have wove in one two COMEDIESG
The first for th' gallery in which the throneH
To their amazement should descend aloneH
The rosin lightning flash and monster spireI
Squibs and words hotter then his fireJ
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Th' other for the gentlemen oth' pitK
Like to themselves all spirit fancy witK
In which plots should be subtile as a flameL
Disguises would make PROTEUS stil the sameL
Humours so rarely humour'd and exprestK
That ev'n they should thinke 'em so not drestK
Vices acted and applauded too timesM
Tickled and th' actors acted not their crimesM
So he might equally applause have gain'dK
Of th' hardned sooty and the snowy handK
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Where now one SO SO spatters t'other noB
Tis his first play twere solecisme 'tshould goeB
The next 't show'd pritily but searcht withinN
It appeares bare and bald as is his chinN
The towne wit sentences A SCHOLARS PLAYC
Pish I know not why but th'ave not the wayC
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We whose gaine is all our pleasure ev'n theseG
Are bound by justice and religion to pleaseG
Which he whose pleasure's all his gaine goes byO
As slightly as they doe his comaedyK
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Culls out the few the worthy at whose feetK
He sacrifices both himselfe and itK
His fancies first fruits profit he knowes noneP
Unles that of your approbationP
Which if your thoughts at going out will payC
Hee'l not looke farther for a second dayC

Richard Lovelace



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