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Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
268 |
Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is
thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our
interlude before the duke and the duchess, on his
wedding-day at night.
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2 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
272 |
First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats
on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow
to a point.
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3 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
275 |
Marry, our play is, The most lamentable comedy, and
most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.
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4 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
285 |
That will ask some tears in the true performing of
it: if I do it, let the audience look to their
eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some
measure. To the rest: yet my chief humour is for a
tyrant: I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to
tear a cat in, to make all split.
The raging rocks
And shivering shocks
Shall break the locks
Of prison gates;
And Phibbus' car
Shall shine from far
And make and mar
The foolish Fates.
This was lofty! Now name the rest of the players.
This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein; a lover is
more condoling.
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5 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Flute |
307 |
Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.
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6 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
308 |
That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and
you may speak as small as you will.
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7 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
310 |
An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I'll
speak in a monstrous little voice. 'Thisne,
Thisne;' 'Ah, Pyramus, lover dear! thy Thisby dear,
and lady dear!'
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8 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
314 |
No, no; you must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby.
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9 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
318 |
Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby's mother.
Tom Snout, the tinker.
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10 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
321 |
You, Pyramus' father: myself, Thisby's father:
Snug, the joiner; you, the lion's part: and, I
hope, here is a play fitted.
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11 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
327 |
Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will
do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar,
that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again,
let him roar again.'
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12 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
341 |
You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a
sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a
summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man:
therefore you must needs play Pyramus.
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13 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
345 |
Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best
to play it in?
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14 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
352 |
Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and
then you will play bare-faced. But, masters, here
are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request
you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night;
and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the
town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if
we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with
company, and our devices known. In the meantime I
will draw a bill of properties, such as our play
wants. I pray you, fail me not.
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15 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Snout |
864 |
Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?
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16 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Bottom |
868 |
Why, then may you leave a casement of the great
chamber window, where we play, open, and the moon
may shine in at the casement.
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17 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Puck |
889 |
What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?
What, a play toward! I'll be an auditor;
An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause.
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18 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Puck |
1036 |
My mistress with a monster is in love.
Near to her close and consecrated bower,
While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
Were met together to rehearse a play
Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day.
The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,
Who Pyramus presented, in their sport
Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake
When I did him at this advantage take,
An ass's nole I fixed on his head:
Anon his Thisbe must be answered,
And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
Rising and cawing at the gun's report,
Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,
So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;
And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls;
He murder cries and help from Athens calls.
Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears
thus strong,
Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;
For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;
Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all
things catch.
I led them on in this distracted fear,
And left sweet Pyramus translated there:
When in that moment, so it came to pass,
Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
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Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1] |
Bottom |
1762 |
[Awaking] When my cue comes, call me, and I will
answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho!
Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout,
the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen
hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare
vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to
say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go
about to expound this dream. Methought I was—there
is no man can tell what. Methought I was,—and
methought I had,—but man is but a patched fool, if
he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye
of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not
seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue
to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream
was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of
this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,
because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the
latter end of a play, before the duke:
peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall
sing it at her death.
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Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 2] |
Flute |
1787 |
If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes
not forward, doth it?
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