Thanks awfully—­seeing I haven’t a thing I can call my own.
[EXEUNT OMNES.

CATERVA

EPILOGUE

SPOKEN BY THE COMPANY.

Spectatores, ad pudicos mores facta haec fabula est, neque in hac subigitationes sunt neque ulla amatio 1030 nec pueri suppositio nec argenti circumductio, neque ubi amans adulescens scortum liberet clam suom patrem.

Spectators, this play was composed with due regard to the proprieties:  here you have no vicious intrigues, no love affair, no supposititious child, no getting money on false pretences, no young spark setting a wench free without his father’s knowledge.

huius modi paucas poetae reperiunt comoedias, ubi boni meliores fiant. nunc vos, si vobis placet et si placuimus neque odio fuimus, signum hoc mittite:  qui pudicitiae esse voltis praemium, plausum date.

Dramatists find few plays such as this which make good men better.  Now, if you so please, and if we have pleased you and have not been boring, intimate as much:  you who wish virtue to be rewarded, give us your applause.

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    [Footnote 1:  Corrupt (Leo):  vincti quia astant Fleckeisen.]

    [Footnote 2:  Leo notes lacuna here: 
    (cette), iam hoc tenetis Schoell.]

    [Footnote 3:  vel precedes in MSS:  Leo brackets.]

    [Footnote 4:  Leo notes lacuna here:  cupio (fieri) Schoell.]

    [Footnote 5:  Leo’s correction of multa miraclitis of the MSS.]

    [Footnote 6:  Corrupt (Leo):  ea MSS:  consili Schoell.]

    [Footnote 7:  Leo brackets the following v., 237: 
      quod tibi suadeam, suadeam meo patri.]

    [Footnote 8:  Leo notes lacuna here:  huius (ille) Camerarius.]

    [Footnote 9:  Leo brackets the following v., 280: 

      Hegio
      Tum igitur ei cum in Aleis tanta gratia est, ut praedicas.]

    [Footnote 10:  Leo brackets the following v., 288: 
      nam ille quidem Theodoromedes fuit germano nomine.]

    [Footnote 11:  Leo brackets the following v., 324: 

      Hegio
      Ego virtute deum et maiorum nostrum dives sum satis.]

    [Footnote 12:  Corrupt (Leo):  quin te gratiis MSS: 
    gratiis quin te Schoell.]

    [Footnote 13:  Leo brackets the following v., 438: 
      scito te hinc minis viginti aestumatum mittier.]

    [Footnote 14:  Corrupt (Leo):  exitium Pontanus:  exilium MSS.]

    [Footnote 15:  Leo brackets the following v., 521: 
      nec sycophantiis nec fucis ullum mantellum obviam est.]