stand quiet at the dresser for you.

ANA. Ha, ha, ha! I think 'tis impossible for him to sleep longer than
he dreams of his victuals. What, Appetitus, up quickly: quickly up,
Appetitus, quickly, sirrah. [_Jogs him_.

APP. I'll come presently; but I hope you'll stay till they be roasted:
will you eat them raw?

ANA. Roasted? ha, ha, ha, ha! up, up, up, away!

APP. Reach the sauce quickly; here's no sugar: whaw, whaw, O, O, O!

ANA. What, never wake? [_Jogs him_.] Wilt never be? Then I must try
another way, I see.

EPILOGUE

Judicious friends, it is so late at night,
I cannot waken hungry Appetite:
Then since the close upon his rising stands,
Let me obtain this at your courteous hands;
Try, if this friendly opportunity
Of your good-will and gracious plaudite,
With the thrice-welcome murmur it shall keep,
Can beg this prisoner from the bands of sleep.

[_Upon the plaudite_ APPETITUS _awakes, and runs in after_ ANAMNESTES.

THE MISERIES OF ENFORCED MARRIAGE.

_EDITIONS_.

(1.) _The Miseries of Inforst Mariage. As it is now playd by his
Maiesties Servants. Qui alios (seipsum) docet. By George Wilkins.
London. Printed for George Vincent, and are to be sold at his shop
in Woodstreete_. 1607, 4to.

(2.) _The Miseries of Inforst Marriage. Playd by his Maiesties
Seruantes. Qui Alios, (seipsum) docet. By George Wilkins. London
Printed for George Vincent, and are to be sold at his Shoppe in
Woodstreete_. 1611. 4to.

(3.) _The Miseries of Inforst Marriage. Playd by his Maiesties Servants.
Qui alios (seipsum) docet. By George Wilkins. London, Printed by Aug.
Mathewes for Richard Thrale, and are to bee sold at his Shop at Pauls
gate, next to Cheape-side_. 1629. 4to.

(4.) _The Miseries of Inforst Marriage. Playd by his Majesties Servants.
Qui alios (seipsum) docet. By George Wilkins. London, Printed by I.N.
for Richard Thrale, and are to be sold at his Shop at Pauls gate; next
to Cheape-side_. M.DC.XXXVII. 4to.

INTRODUCTION.

George Wilkins, like many other minor poets of his time, has had no
memorials concerning him transmitted to us. He wrote no play alone,
except that which is here reprinted; but he joined with John Day and
William Rowley in "The Travels of the Three English Brothers, Sir
Thomas, Sir Anthony, and Sir Robert Shirley," an historical play,
printed in 4to, 1607[325]. He was also the author of "Three Miseries
of Barbary: Plague, Famine, Civill warre." [1603.] 4to.