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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
  
Francis Quarles. 1592–1644
  
277. Respice Finem
Epigram
  
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. 
 
 
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