2003Pir. O kisse me through the hole of this vile wall.

2004This. I kisse the wals hole, not your lips at all.

2005Pir. Wilt thou at Ninnies tombe meete me straight

2006way?

2007This. Tide life, tide death, I come without delay.

2008Wall. Thus haue I Wall, my part discharged so;

2009And being done, thus Wall away doth go. Exit Clow.

2010Du. Now is the morall downe between the two

2011Neighbors.

2012Dem. No remedie my Lord, when Wals are so wil-

2013full, to heare without vvarning.

2014Dut. This is the silliest stuffe that ere I heard.

2015Du. The best in this kind are but shadowes, and the

2016worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.

2017Dut. It must be your imagination then, & not theirs.

2018Duk. If wee imagine no worse of them then they of

2019themselues, they may passe for excellent men. Here com

2020two noble beasts, in a man and a Lion.

2022Lyon. You Ladies, you (whose gentle harts do feare

2023The smallest monstrous mouse that creepes on floore)

2024May now perchance, both quake and tremble heere,

2025When Lion rough in wildest rage doth roare.

2026Then know that I, one Snug the Ioyner am

2027A Lion fell, nor else no Lions dam:

2028For if I should as Lion come in strife

2029Into this place, 'twere pittie of my life.

2030Du. A verie gentle beast, and of good conscience.

2031Dem. The verie best at a beast, my Lord, y^t ere I saw.

2032Lis. This Lion is a verie Fox for his valor.

2033Du. True, and a Goose for his discretion.

2034Dem. Not so my Lord: for his valor cannot carrie

2035his discretion, and the Fox carries the Goose.

2036Du. His discretion I am sure cannot carrie his valor:

2037for the Goose carries not the Fox. It is well; leaue it to

2038his discretion, and let vs hearken to the Moone.

2039Moone. This Lanthorne doth the horned Moone pre-

2040sent.

2041De. He should haue worne the hornes on his head.

2042Du. Hee is no crescent, and his hornes are inuisible,

2043within the circumference.

2044Moon. This lanthorne doth the horned Moone pre-

2045sent: My selfe, the man i'th Moone doth seeme to be.

2046Du. This is the greatest error of all the rest; the man

2047Should be put into the Lanthorne. How is it els the man

2048i'th Moone?

2049Dem. He dares not come there for the candle.

2050For you see, it is already in snuffe.

2051Dut. I am vvearie of this Moone; vvould he would

2052change.

2053Du. It appeares by his smal light of discretion, that

2054he is in the wane: but yet in courtesie, in all reason, vve

2055must stay the time.

2056Lys. Proceed Moone.

2057Moon. All that I haue to say, is to tell you, that the

2058Lanthorne is the Moone; I, the man in the Moone; this

2059thorne bush, my thorne bush; and this dog, my dog.

2060Dem. Why all these should be in the Lanthorne: for

2061they are in the Moone. But silence, heere comes Thisby.

2063This. This is old Ninnies tombe: where is my loue?

2064Lyon. Oh.

2066Dem. Well roar'd Lion.

2067Du. Well run Thisby.

2068Dut. Well shone Moone.

2069Truly the Moone shines with a good grace.

2070Du. Wel mouz'd Lion.

2071Dem. And then came Piramus.

2072Lys. And so the Lion vanisht.

2074Pyr. Sweet Moone, I thank thee for thy sunny beames,

2075I thanke thee Moone, for shining now so bright:

2076For by thy gracious, golden, glittering beames,

2077I trust to taste of truest Thisbies sight.

2078But stay: O spight! but marke, poore Knight,

2079What dreadful dole is heere?

2080Eyes do you see! How can it be!

2081O dainty Ducke: O Deere!

2082Thy mantle good; what staind with blood!

2083Approch you Furies fell:

2084O Fates! come, come: Cut thred and thrum,

2085Quaile, crush, conclude, and quell.

2086Du. This passion, and the death of a deare friend,

2087Would go neere to make a man looke sad.

2088Dut. Beshrew my heart, but I pittie the man.

2089Pir. O wherefore Nature, did'st thou Lions frame?

2090Since Lion vilde hath heere deflour'd my deere:

2091Which is: no, no, which was the fairest Dame

2092That liu'd, that lou'd, that lik'd, that look'd with cheere.

2093Come teares, confound: Out sword, and wound

2094The pap of Piramus:

2095I, that left pap, where heart doth hop;

2096Thus dye I, thus, thus, thus.

2097Now am I dead, now am I fled, my soule is in the sky,

2098Tongue lose thy light, Moone take thy flight,

2099Now dye, dye, dye, dye, dye.

2100Dem. No Die, but an ace for him; for he is but one.

2101Lis. Lesse then an ace man. For he is dead, he is no-

2102thing.

2103Du. With the helpe of a Surgeon, he might yet reco-

2104uer, and proue an Asse.

2105Dut. How chance Moone-shine is gone before?

2106Thisby comes backe, and findes her Louer.

2108Duke. She wil finde him by starre-light.

2109Heere she comes, and her passion ends the play.

2110Dut. Me thinkes shee should not vse a long one for

2111such a Piramus: I hope she will be breefe.

2112Dem. A Moth wil turne the ballance, which Piramus

2113which Thisby is the better.

2114Lys. She hath spyed him already, with those sweete (eyes.

2115Dem. And thus she meanes, videlicit.

2116This. Asleepe my Loue? What, dead my Doue?

2117O Piramus arise:

2118Speake, Speake. Quite dumbe? Dead, dead? A tombe

2119Must couer thy sweet eyes.

2120These Lilly Lips, this cherry nose,

2121These yellow Cowslip cheekes

2122Are gone, are gone: Louers make mone:

2123His eyes were greene as Leekes.

2124O sisters three, come, come to mee,

2125With hands as pale as Milke,

2126Lay them in gore, since you haue shore

2127With sheeres, his thred of silke.

2128Tongue not a word: Come trusty sword:

2129Come blade, my brest imbrue:

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