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Show E P I L O G U E . TH E Play is at an end, but whereas the Plot ? That Circumfiance our Poet Bayes forgot. And we can boafi, tho'' 'tis a plotting Age, No Place is freer from it than the Stage. The Antientsplotted, tho'', and firove to pleafe With Senfe that might be underjlood with eafe ; They every Scene withfo much Wit did jlere, That •who brought any in, went out with more. But this new Way cf Wit does fo furprize, Men lofe their Wits in wondering where it lies. If ft be true, that morfirous Births prefage The following Mifchiefs that afifiicl the Age, Jlnd fad Difafiers to the State proclaim ; Plays without Head or Tail may do the fame. Wherefore for ours, and for the Kingdom's Peace May this prodigious Way of Writing cecfe. Lefs have at leaf, onee in our lives a Time When we may hear fome Reafon, not all Rhyme, We have this ten Tears felt its influence ; £ray let this prove a Tear of Profe and Senfe. A KEY T O T H E REHEARSAL. O R, A C R I T I C A L V I E W of the A U T H O R S , and their Writings^ that are expofed in that Celebrated PLAY. THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER, ' f f l i H O U canft not hz ignorant, that the ;i^|j|| Town has had an eager Expectation of a T IIP Ke^ tC-the ^ekea'f21 evcr fince it fi^ ap-i|$| peared in Print ,• and none has more ear- P K neftly defir'd it than myfelf, tho' in vain ; mR till lately, a Gentleman of m y Acquaintance recommended me to a Perfon, who he believed could give me a further light into this matter, than I had hitherto met with from any hand.. In |