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The Maids Tragedy Alter'd.
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EPILOGUE,

Spoken by the King.

The fierce Melantius was content, you see,The King should live; be not more fierce than he.Too long indulgent to so rude a Time;When Love was held so capital a Crime,That a Crown'd Head could no compassion find;But dy'd, because the Killer had been kind.Nor is't less strange such mighty Wits as thoseShould use a Style in Tragedy, like Prose.Well sounding Verse, where Princes tread the Stage,Should speak their Vertue, or describe their rage.By the loud Trumpet, which our Courage aids,We learn that sound, as well as sense, perswades.
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