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THE SECOND PROLOGUE.
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Prologue
I COME to you as an envoy from the Poet, in the character of prologue-speaker; allow me to be a successful pleader, that in my old age I may enjoy the same privilege that I enjoyed when a younger man, when I caused new Plays, that had been once rejected, to come into favor; so that his writings might not die with the Poet. Among them, as to those of Caecilius,

1 Second Prologue: --Eugraphius informs us that this Prologue was spoken by Ambivius Turpio, the head of the company of Actors.

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