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The Country-Wife,
a Comedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal
Written by
Mr.
Wycherley
.
Indignor quicquam reprehendi, non quia crassè
Compositum illepidéve putetur, sed quia nuper:
Nec veniam Antiquis, sed honorem & præmia possi.
Horat.
LONDON, Printed for
Thomas Dring
, at the
Harrow
. at the Corner of
Chancery-Lane
in
Fleet-street
. 1675.
PROLOGUE, spoken by Mr
Hart.
Poets like Cudgel'd Bullys, never do
At first, or second blow, submit to you;
But will provoke you still, and ne're have done,
Till you are weary first, with laying on:
The late so basted Scribler of this day,
Though he stands trembling, bids me boldly say,
What we, before most Playes are us'd to do,
For Poets out of fear, first draw on you;
In a fierce Prologue, the still Pit defie,
And e're you speak, like
Castril
, give the lye;
But though our
Bayses
Batles oft I've fought,
And with bruis'd knuckles, their dear Conquests bought;
Nay, never yet fear'd Odds upon the Stage,
In Prologue dare not Hector with the Age,
But wou'd t . . .
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