Francis Quarles


FROM  Emblems, 1635

Epigram

Respice Finem


MY soul, sit thou a patient looker-on ;
Judge not the play before the play is done :
Her plot hath many changes ;  every day
Speaks a new scene ;  the last act crowns the play.




Source:
The Oxford Book of English Verse.
Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1919. 285.




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