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<H3>SCENE I. The wood. TITANIA lying asleep.</h3>

<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING</i>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech1><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1>Are we all met?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech2><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2>Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place</A><br>
<A NAME=3>for our rehearsal. This green plot shall be our</A><br>
<A NAME=4>stage, this hawthorn-brake our tiring-house; and we</A><br>
<A NAME=5>will do it in action as we will do it before the duke.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech3><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=6>Peter Quince,--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech4><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=7>What sayest thou, bully Bottom?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech5><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=8>There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and</A><br>
<A NAME=9>Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must</A><br>
<A NAME=10>draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies</A><br>
<A NAME=11>cannot abide. How answer you that?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech6><b>SNOUT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=12>By'r lakin, a parlous fear.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech7><b>STARVELING</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=13>I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech8><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=14>Not a whit: I have a device to make all well.</A><br>
<A NAME=15>Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to</A><br>
<A NAME=16>say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that</A><br>
<A NAME=17>Pyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the more</A><br>
<A NAME=18>better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not</A><br>
<A NAME=19>Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them</A><br>
<A NAME=20>out of fear.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech9><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=21>Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be</A><br>
<A NAME=22>written in eight and six.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech10><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=23>No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech11><b>SNOUT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=24>Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech12><b>STARVELING</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=25>I fear it, I promise you.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech13><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=26>Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves: to</A><br>
<A NAME=27>bring in--God shield us!--a lion among ladies, is a</A><br>
<A NAME=28>most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful</A><br>
<A NAME=29>wild-fowl than your lion living; and we ought to</A><br>
<A NAME=30>look to 't.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech14><b>SNOUT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=31>Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech15><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=32>Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must</A><br>
<A NAME=33>be seen through the lion's neck: and he himself</A><br>
<A NAME=34>must speak through, saying thus, or to the same</A><br>
<A NAME=35>defect,--'Ladies,'--or 'Fair-ladies--I would wish</A><br>
<A NAME=36>You,'--or 'I would request you,'--or 'I would</A><br>
<A NAME=37>entreat you,--not to fear, not to tremble: my life</A><br>
<A NAME=38>for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it</A><br>
<A NAME=39>were pity of my life: no I am no such thing; I am a</A><br>
<A NAME=40>man as other men are;' and there indeed let him name</A><br>
<A NAME=41>his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech16><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=42>Well it shall be so. But there is two hard things;</A><br>
<A NAME=43>that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber; for,</A><br>
<A NAME=44>you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech17><b>SNOUT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=45>Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech18><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=46>A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanac; find</A><br>
<A NAME=47>out moonshine, find out moonshine.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech19><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=48>Yes, it doth shine that night.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech20><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=49>Why, then may you leave a casement of the great</A><br>
<A NAME=50>chamber window, where we play, open, and the moon</A><br>
<A NAME=51>may shine in at the casement.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech21><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=52>Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns</A><br>
<A NAME=53>and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to</A><br>
<A NAME=54>present, the person of Moonshine. Then, there is</A><br>
<A NAME=55>another thing: we must have a wall in the great</A><br>
<A NAME=56>chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby says the story, did</A><br>
<A NAME=57>talk through the chink of a wall.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech22><b>SNOUT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=58>You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech23><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=59>Some man or other must present Wall: and let him</A><br>
<A NAME=60>have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast</A><br>
<A NAME=61>about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his</A><br>
<A NAME=62>fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus</A><br>
<A NAME=63>and Thisby whisper.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech24><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=64>If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit  down,</A><br>
<A NAME=65>every mother's son, and rehearse your parts.</A><br>
<A NAME=66>Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your</A><br>
<A NAME=67>speech, enter into that brake: and so every one</A><br>
<A NAME=68>according to his cue.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PUCK behind</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech25><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=69>What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,</A><br>
<A NAME=70>So near the cradle of the fairy queen?</A><br>
<A NAME=71>What, a play toward! I'll be an auditor;</A><br>
<A NAME=72>An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech26><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=73>Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech27><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=74>Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet,--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech28><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=75>Odours, odours.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech29><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=76>--odours savours sweet:</A><br>
<A NAME=77>So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby dear.</A><br>
<A NAME=78>But hark, a voice! stay thou but here awhile,</A><br>
<A NAME=79>And by and by I will to thee appear.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech30><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=80>A stranger Pyramus than e'er played here.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech31><b>FLUTE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=81>Must I speak now?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech32><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=82>Ay, marry, must you; for you must understand he goes</A><br>
<A NAME=83>but to see a noise that he heard, and is to come again.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech33><b>FLUTE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=84>Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,</A><br>
<A NAME=85>Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier,</A><br>
<A NAME=86>Most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely Jew,</A><br>
<A NAME=87>As true as truest horse that yet would never tire,</A><br>
<A NAME=88>I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech34><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=89>'Ninus' tomb,' man: why, you must not speak that</A><br>
<A NAME=90>yet; that you answer to Pyramus: you speak all your</A><br>
<A NAME=91>part at once, cues and all Pyramus enter: your cue</A><br>
<A NAME=92>is past; it is, 'never tire.'</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech35><b>FLUTE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=93>O,--As true as truest horse, that yet would</A><br>
<A NAME=94>never tire.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass's head</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech36><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=95>If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech37><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=96>O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray,</A><br>
<A NAME=97>masters! fly, masters! Help!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt QUINCE, SNUG, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech38><b>PUCK</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=98>I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round,</A><br>
<A NAME=99>Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier:</A><br>
<A NAME=100>Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound,</A><br>
<A NAME=101>A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;</A><br>
<A NAME=102>And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,</A><br>
<A NAME=103>Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech39><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=104>Why do they run away? this is a knavery of them to</A><br>
<A NAME=105>make me afeard.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter SNOUT</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech40><b>SNOUT</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=106>O Bottom, thou art changed! what do I see on thee?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech41><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=107>What do you see? you see an asshead of your own, do</A><br>
<A NAME=108>you?</A><br>
<p><i>Exit SNOUT</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter QUINCE</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech42><b>QUINCE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=109>Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art</A><br>
<A NAME=110>translated.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech43><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=111>I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me;</A><br>
<A NAME=112>to fright me, if they could. But I will not stir</A><br>
<A NAME=113>from this place, do what they can: I will walk up</A><br>
<A NAME=114>and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear</A><br>
<A NAME=115>I am not afraid.</A><br>
<p><i>Sings</i></p>
<A NAME=116>The ousel cock so black of hue,</A><br>
<A NAME=117>With orange-tawny bill,</A><br>
<A NAME=118>The throstle with his note so true,</A><br>
<A NAME=119>The wren with little quill,--</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech44><b>TITANIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=120>[Awaking]  What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech45><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=121>[Sings]</A><br>
<A NAME=122>The finch, the sparrow and the lark,</A><br>
<A NAME=123>The plain-song cuckoo gray,</A><br>
<A NAME=124>Whose note full many a man doth mark,</A><br>
<A NAME=125>And dares not answer nay;--</A><br>
<A NAME=126>for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish</A><br>
<A NAME=127>a bird? who would give a bird the lie, though he cry</A><br>
<A NAME=128>'cuckoo' never so?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech46><b>TITANIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=129>I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:</A><br>
<A NAME=130>Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note;</A><br>
<A NAME=131>So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;</A><br>
<A NAME=132>And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me</A><br>
<A NAME=133>On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech47><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=134>Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason</A><br>
<A NAME=135>for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and</A><br>
<A NAME=136>love keep little company together now-a-days; the</A><br>
<A NAME=137>more the pity that some honest neighbours will not</A><br>
<A NAME=138>make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech48><b>TITANIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=139>Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech49><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=140>Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out</A><br>
<A NAME=141>of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech50><b>TITANIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=142>Out of this wood do not desire to go:</A><br>
<A NAME=143>Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no.</A><br>
<A NAME=144>I am a spirit of no common rate;</A><br>
<A NAME=145>The summer still doth tend upon my state;</A><br>
<A NAME=146>And I do love thee: therefore, go with me;</A><br>
<A NAME=147>I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=148>And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,</A><br>
<A NAME=149>And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep;</A><br>
<A NAME=150>And I will purge thy mortal grossness so</A><br>
<A NAME=151>That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.</A><br>
<A NAME=152>Peaseblossom! Cobweb! Moth! and Mustardseed!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, and MUSTARDSEED</i></p>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech51><b>PEASEBLOSSOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=153>Ready.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech52><b>COBWEB</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=154>     And I.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech53><b>MOTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=155>          And I.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech54><b>MUSTARDSEED</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=156>                  And I.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech55><b>ALL</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=157>Where shall we go?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech56><b>TITANIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=158>Be kind and courteous to this gentleman;</A><br>
<A NAME=159>Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes;</A><br>
<A NAME=160>Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,</A><br>
<A NAME=161>With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;</A><br>
<A NAME=162>The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,</A><br>
<A NAME=163>And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs</A><br>
<A NAME=164>And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=165>To have my love to bed and to arise;</A><br>
<A NAME=166>And pluck the wings from Painted butterflies</A><br>
<A NAME=167>To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes:</A><br>
<A NAME=168>Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech57><b>PEASEBLOSSOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=169>Hail, mortal!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech58><b>COBWEB</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=170>Hail!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech59><b>MOTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=171>Hail!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech60><b>MUSTARDSEED</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=172>Hail!</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech61><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=173>I cry your worship's mercy, heartily: I beseech your</A><br>
<A NAME=174>worship's name.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech62><b>COBWEB</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=175>Cobweb.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech63><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=176>I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master</A><br>
<A NAME=177>Cobweb: if I cut my finger, I shall make bold with</A><br>
<A NAME=178>you. Your name, honest gentleman?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech64><b>PEASEBLOSSOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=179>Peaseblossom.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech65><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=180>I pray you, commend me to Mistress Squash, your</A><br>
<A NAME=181>mother, and to Master Peascod, your father. Good</A><br>
<A NAME=182>Master Peaseblossom, I shall desire you of more</A><br>
<A NAME=183>acquaintance too. Your name, I beseech you, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech66><b>MUSTARDSEED</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=184>Mustardseed.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech67><b>BOTTOM</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=185>Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well:</A><br>
<A NAME=186>that same cowardly, giant-like ox-beef hath</A><br>
<A NAME=187>devoured many a gentleman of your house: I promise</A><br>
<A NAME=188>you your kindred had made my eyes water ere now. I</A><br>
<A NAME=189>desire your more acquaintance, good Master</A><br>
<A NAME=190>Mustardseed.</A><br>
</blockquote>

<A NAME=speech68><b>TITANIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=191>Come, wait upon him; lead him to my bower.</A><br>
<A NAME=192>The moon methinks looks with a watery eye;</A><br>
<A NAME=193>And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,</A><br>
<A NAME=194>Lamenting some enforced chastity.</A><br>
<A NAME=195>Tie up my love's tongue bring him silently.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
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