{"id":"01KG8AZJGGPYRMJQAR141TWSCJ","cid":"bafkreifs4eoeorvpfvmgkmg5g5eyxismmqmxgnl4kzx72tceanuwusrg4i","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreibcjpqfosjfpq4yx6zcon76dwlpjnft52pzr2miogrvrn675r5eqa","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"04_henry_iv_part_2_1921_page_0134.jpg","height":1817,"key":"pdf-page-1769806480392-xm5b6u071ff","label":"04_henry_iv_part_2_1921_page_0134.jpg","page_number":134,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":383951,"text":"1\n22\nThe\nSecond\nPart of\nEPILOGUE\n[Spoken by a Dancer.]\nFirst, my fear; then, my curtsy; last my\nspeech. My fear is, your displeasure, my\ncurtsy, my duty, and my speech, to beg your\npardon. If you look for a good speech now, you 4\nundo me; for what I have to say is of mine\nown making; and what indeed I should say\nwill, I doubt, prove mine own marring. But to\nthe purpose, and so to the venture. Be it known 8\nto you, — as it is very well, — I was lately here in\nthe end of a displeasing play, to pray your\npatience for it and to promise you a better. I\ndid mean indeed to pay you with this ; which, 12\nif like an ill venture it come unluckily home, I\nbreak, and you, my gentle creditors, lose. Here,\nI promised you I would be, and here I commit\nmy body to your mercies: bate me some and I 16\nwill pay you some; and, as most debtors do,\npromise you infinitely.\nIf my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me,\nwill you command me to use my legs ? and yet 20\nthat were but light payment, to dance out of your\ndebt. But a good conscience will make any\npossible satisfaction, and so will I. All the\ngentlewomen here have forgiven me : if the 24\ngentlemen will not, then the gentlemen do not\nagree with the gentlewomen, which was never\nseen before in such an assembly.\nOne word more, I beseech you. If you be not 28\ntoo much cloyed with fat meat, our humble\nEpilogue; cf. n. 7 doubt: fear\n14 break: become bankrupt 16 bate: remit","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:54:40.392Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true,"width":1118},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG89K4MQB10V83VB7VGQ9V7D","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KG89JREDR8WY5QQGYR5FZRDY","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AZHWA5WJPWV8SVZ88SRH0","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AZJGJQ7R2Q88B2KZ9J1GG","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:54:41.936Z","ts":"2026-01-30T21:12:46.328Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFFH6ETXGRVD10WPNP3007D6"}}