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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Epigram

Francis Quarles (1592–1644)

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.