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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PROMETHEUS UNBOUND; A LYRICAL DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY THE VIRGINIANS OF THE VALLEY by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR POSTHUMOUS REMORSE by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE IDYLL 6. CLEODAMUS AND MYRSON by BION |