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<Text id=FleChan> <Author>Fletcher, John</Author> <Title>The Chances</Title> <Edition>George Walton Williams, ed. The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979</Edition> <Date>1617</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>FleChanPro</locdoc> <div0 n=Prologue> <milestone n=628> <l n=1> Prologue.</l> <l n=2> Aptnesse for mirth to all, this instant night</l> <l n=3> Thalia hath prepar'd for your delight,</l> <l n=4> Her choice and curious Viands, in each part,</l> <l n=5> Season'd with rarities of wit, and Art;</l> <l n=6> Nor feare I to be tax'd for a vaine boast,</l> <l n=7> My promise will finde credit with the most,</l> <l n=8> When they know Ingenuous Fletcher made it, hee</l> <l n=9> Being in himselfe a perfect Comedie.</l> <l n=10> And some sit here, I doubt not, dare averre,</l> <l n=11> Living he made that house a Theater</l> <l n=12> Which he pleas'd to frequent; and thus much we</l> <l n=13> Could not but pay to his lovd memorie.</l> <l . . .