The Ladies too in Blushes do confess. Equal Desires; which yet they’ll not confess. Theirs, tho less fierce, more constant will abide; But ours less current grow the more they’re try’d. EPILOGUE HISS ’em, and cry ’em down, ’tis all in vain, Incorrigible Scriblers can’t abstain: But impudently i’th’ old Sin engage; Tho doom’d before, nay banish’d from the Stage. Whilst sad Experience our Eyes convinces, That damn’d their Plays which hang’d the _German_ Princess; And we with Ornament set off a Play, Like her drest fine for Execution-day. And faith, I think, with as small hopes to live; Unless kind Gallants the same Grace you’d give Our Comedy as Her; beg a Reprieve. Well, what the other mist, let our Scribe get, A Pardon, for she swears she’s the less Cheat. She never gull’d you Gallants of the Town Of Sum above four Shillings, or half a Crown. 330 Nor does she, as some late great Authors do, Bubble the Audience, and the Players too. Her humble Muse soars not in the High-rode Of Wit transverst, or Baudy _A-la-mode_; Yet hopes her plain and easy Style is such, As your high Censures will disdain to touch. Let her low Sense creep safe from your Bravadoes, Whilst Rotas and Cabals aim at Granadoes. Notes on the Text. _433_ The Dutch Lover. Dramatis Personæ p. 226 I have added to the Dramatis Personæ ‘Boy, Page to Marcel, Servant to Carlo, A Friar, Swains, Four Shepherds, Four Nymphs, Dutch men and Dutch women.’ Act I: Scene i p. 227, l. 3 The locale _A Street_ is not marked in 4to 1673 or 1724. p. 229, l. 4 _Christian._ 1724 ‘christian’. Act I: Scene ii p. 231, l. 8 _his nice Honour._ 1724, wrongly, omits ‘nice’. p. 232, l. 3 _I must still love on._ 1724 omits ‘still’. p. 233, l. 6 _after long Despairs._ 1724 ‘after long Despair’. p. 233, l. 21 _too much of Joy._ 1724 ‘Joys’. p. 233, l. 28 _change thy Wonder._ 4to 1673 ‘Wonders’. p. 234, l. 23 _Marcel is surprized._ 1724 omits this stage direction. p. 234, l. 36 _And thou, Antonio, that has betray’d her._ 4to 1673 ‘And thou, Antonio, thou hast betray’d her’. 1724 ‘And thou, Antonio, thou that hast betray’d her’. p. 235, l. 17 _a kind obliging Lady._ 1724 ‘A kind of obliging Lady’. p. 236, l. 4 _Am I a Dog._ 4to 1673 wrongly marks this line ‘aside’. p. 236, l. 10 _I, like the Birds._ 4to 1673 omits ‘the’. p. 237, l. 1 _Biscay, a Surgeon._ 4to 1673 omits ‘a’. p. 237, l. 7 _Down of Swans._ 1724 ‘Swan’. Act I: Scene iii p. 238, l. 3 _and lik’d him._ 1724 ‘and like him’. p. 240, l. 2 _this is the first._ 1724 ‘this was the first’. p. 240, l. 34 _to his heart._ 1724 omits. p. 241, l. 8 _Prithee instruct._ 4to 1673 as prose. p. 241, l. 20 _Command me._ 4to 1673 as prose. p. 242, l. 13 _My Death._ 1724 ‘me death’. Act II: Scene i p. 243, l. 8 _undone its Fame._ 1724 ‘undone his Fame’. p. 244, l. 11 _the next Morning’s Sun._ 4to 1673 ‘th’ Approach of next Morning’s Sun’. 1724 ‘of the next Morning Sun’. p. 244, l. 31 _They go out._ 4to 1673 omits ‘they’. Act II: Scene ii