As You Like It: ACT V
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V SCENE I. The forest. SCENE II. The forest. SCENE III. The forest. SCENE IV. The forest. EPILOGUE About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: EPILOGUE ROSALIND       It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue;       but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord       the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs       no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no 5     epilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes,       and good plays prove the better by the help of good       epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am       neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with       you in the behalf of a good play! I am not 10    furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not       become me: my way is to conjure you; and I'll begin       with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love       you bear to men, to like as much of this play as       please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love 15    you bear to women--as I perceive by your simpering,       none of you hates them--that between you and the       women the play may please. If I were a woman I       would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased       me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I 20    defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good       beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my       kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene