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- Edition: A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folio 1, 1623)
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1746Enter Quince, Flute, Thisbie, Snout, and Starueling.
1748home yet?
1749Staru. He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt hee is
1750transported.
This. If
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1751This. If he come not, then the play is mar'd. It goes
1752not forward, doth it?
1754Athens, able to discharge Piramus but he.
1756craft man in Athens.
1758Paramour, for a sweet voyce.
1760blesse vs) a thing of nought.
1761Enter Snug the Ioyner.
1763ple, and there is two or three Lords & Ladies more mar-
1764ried. If our sport had gone forward, we had all bin made
1765men.
1768pence a day. And the Duke had not giuen him sixpence
1769a day for playing Piramus, Ile be hang'd. He would haue
1770deserued it. Sixpence a day in Piramus, or nothing.
1771Enter Bottome.
1774pie houre!
1776not what. For if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I
1777will tell you euery thing as it fell out.
1779Bot. Not a word of me: all that I will tell you, is, that
1780the Duke hath dined. Get your apparell together, good
1781strings to your beards, new ribbands to your pumps,
1782meete presently at the Palace, euery man looke ore his
1783part: for the short and the long is, our play is preferred:
1784In any case let Thisby haue cleane linnen: and let not him
1785that playes the Lion, paire his nailes, for they shall hang
1787no Onions, nor Garlicke; for wee are to vtter sweete
1788breath, and I doe not doubt but to heare them say, it is a
1789sweet Comedy. No more words: away, go away.
1790 Exeunt.