The woman's prize / by John Fletcher

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<I * The Woman's Prize>+
<X    by John Fletcher>+
<X    Text from Bowers' edition, 1979>+
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<X      P      pages in Bowers' edition  >
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<N 1> <Z Prologue>
<N 2> Ladies to you, in whose defence and right,
<N 3> Fletchers brave muse prepar'd her self to fight
<N 4> A battaile without blood, 'twas well fought too,
<N 5> (The victory's yours, though got with much ado,)
<N 6> We do present this Comedy, in which
<N 7> A rivulet to pure wit flowes, strong and rich
<N 8> In Fancy, Language, and all parts that may
<N 9> Adde grace and ornament to a merry Play.
<N 10> Which this may prove. Yet not to go too far
<N 11> In promises from this our female war,
<N 12> We do intreat the angry men would not
<N 13> Expect the mazes of a subtl . . .

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