OVER. Nay, Humphrey, if I be patient, you must be so too; this pleasant conceited gentleman hath wrought upon my judgment, and prevail'd: I pray you take care of your sick friend, mistress Alice, and my good friends all-- QUAR. And no _enormities._ OVER. I invite you home with me to my house to supper: I will have none fear to go along, for my intents are _ad correctionem, non ad destructionem; ad ædificandum, non ad diruendum_: so lead on. COKES. Yes, and bring the actors along, we'll have the rest of the play at home. [_Exeunt._ 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 license: you can tell If we have us'd that leave you gave us well; Or whether we to rage or license 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._ Transcriber's Note The text of this transcription is from the second volume of the "Everyman's Library" edition of Jonson's plays which was first published in 1910 by J.M. Dent in London. Images of a reprint of this edition are posted at: archive.org/details/plays02jons As a reference, a copy of the 1640 edition (i.e., the "Folio") made available by the University of California was also consulted. Images of this copy are posted at: archive.org/details/workesofbenjamin00jons Any transcription of a 1910 edition of a Jacobean text will run into some minor problems, and "Bartholomew Fair" poses its own special set of challenges. The goal of the Everyman's Library edition was to create a readable text, but editorial standards have changed since it was first published. Certain words from the Folio were censored. For example, "t--" is substituted for "turd". The Everyman's Library edition frequently spells out words that are contractions in the Folio, for example, substituting _in_ for _i'_ and _have_ for _ha'_. The Folio includes many stage directions, but there are inconsistencies, errors, and apparent omissions. As a corrective, the editor of the 1910 edition added more stage directions than more recent editors would. In the Folio, stage directions are printed in the margins to indicate that the action happens during the dialogue, and some lines are printed to the right of others to indicate simultaneous dialogue, for example, during Nightingale's song in Act III. The 1910 edition prints the text without columns or margins. Consequently some stage directions were changed, and the dialogue is printed sequentially, making it harder for the reader to get a sense of the stage action.