17461677Enter Quince, Flute, Thisby and the rabble. 17471678Quin. Haue you
sent to
Bottoms hou
se? Is he come
17491680Flut. Hee cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is tran
s- 17511682Thys. If hee come not, then the Play is mard. It goes
17531684Quin. It is not po
ssible. You haue not a man, in all
A- 17541685thens, able to di
scharge
Pyramus, but he.
17551686Thys. No, hee hath
simply the be
st wit of any handy
- 17571688Quin. Yea, and the be
st per
son to, and hee is a very
17591690This. You mu
st say, Paragon. A Paramour is (God
17621693Snug. Ma
sters, the Duke is comming from the Tem
- 17631694ple,and there is two or three Lords and Ladies more
17641695married. If our
sport had gon forward, wee had all
17661697Thys. O
sweete bully
Bottome. Thus hath hee lo
st six
17671698pence a day, during his life: hee coulde not haue
scaped
1699sixe pence a day. And the Duke had not giuen him
six
17681700pence a day, for playing
Pyramus, Ile be hanged.
17691701He would haue de
serued it. Six pence a day, in
Pyramus,
or
A Midsommer nightes dreame.
17721704Bot. Where are the
se lads? Where are the
se harts?
17731705Quin. Bottom, ? mo
st couragious day! O mo
st happy
17751707Bott. Ma
sters, I am to di
scour
se wonders: but a
ske me
17761708not what. For if I tell you, I am not true
Athenian. I will
17771709tell you euery thing right as it fell out.
17781710Quin. Let vs heare,
sweete
Bottom.
17791711Bot. Not a word of mee. All that I will tell you, is, that
17801712the Duke hath dined. Get your apparrell together, good
17811713strings to your beardes, new ribands to your pumpes,
17821714meete pre
sently at the palace, euery man looke ore his part.
17831715For, the
short and the long is, our play is preferd. In any
17841716ca
se let
Thisby haue cleane linnen: and let not him, that
17851717plaies the Lyon, pare his nailes: for they
shall hang out
17861718for the Lyons clawes. And mo
st deare A
ctors, eate no O
- 17871719nions nor garlicke: for we are to vtter
sweete breath: and
17881720I do not doubt but to hear them
say, it is a
sweete Comedy.