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 thought upon 't; and cannot tell which way Ought I can say now should advance the play: For plays are either good or bad: the good (If they do beg) beg to be understood; And, in good faith, that has as bold a sound, As if a beggar should ask twenty pound. —Men have it not about them: Then, gentlemen, if rightly understood, The bad do need less prologue than the good; For, if it chance the plot be lame, or blind, Ill-cloth'd, deform'd throughout, it needs must find Compassion—it is a beggar without art: But it falls out in penny-worths of wit, As in all bargains else—men ever get All they can in; will have London measure, A handful over, in their very pleasure. And now ye have 't, he could not well deny 'ee. And I dare swear he's scarce a saver by ye.