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First Line: Your majesty hath seen the play
Last Line: If it so happy be, t' have pleased the king.


EPILOGUE

Your Majesty hath seen the play, and you
Can best allow it from your ear and view.
You know the scope of writers, and what store
Of leave is given them, if they take not more,
And turn it into licence: you can tell
If we have used that leave you gave us well:
Or whether we to rage or licence break,
Or be profane, or make profane men speak:
This is your power to judge, great sir, and not
The envy of a few. Which if we have got,
We value less what their dislike can bring,
If it so happy be, t' have pleased the King.




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