Cutter of Coleman-street/Epilogue, spoken by Cutter

by Abraham Cowley

Fleuron from 'Cutter of Coleman-street' by Abraham Cowley, published in 1663

EPILOGUE,

Spoken by

CUTTER.

Me-thinks a Vision bids me silence break,$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$Without his Peruique.
And some words to this Congregation speak,
So great and gay a one I ne'er did meet
At the Fifth Monarch's Court in Coleman-street.
But yet I wonder much not to espy a
Brother in all this Court call'd Zephaniah.
Bless me! where are we? What may this place be?
For I begin by Vision now to see
That this is a meer Theater; well then,
If't be e'en so, I'l Cutter be again.$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$Puts on his Peruique.
Not Cutter the pretended Cavaleer,
For to confess ingenuously here
To you who always of that Party were,
I never was of any; up and down
I rowld, a very Rakehell of this Town.
But now my Follies and my Faults are ended,
My Fortune and my Mind are both amended,
And if we may believe one who has fail'd before,
Our Author says He'l mend, that is, He'l write no more.