1019972Lamenting some enforced chastitie.

1020973Ty vp my louers tongue, bring him silently. Exit.

1022975Ob. I wonder if Titania be awak't;

1023976Then what it was, that next came in her eye,

1024977Which she must dote on, in extreamitie.

1026978Here comes my messenger. How now, mad spirit?

1027979What nightrule now about this haunted groue?

1028980Puck. My mistresse with a monster is in loue,

1029981Neere to her close and consecrated bower.

1030982While she was in her dull, and sleeping hower,

1031983A crew of patches, rude Mechanicals,

1032984That worke for bread, vpon Athenian stalles,

1033985Were met together to rehearse a play,

1034986Intended for great Theseus nuptiall day:

1035987The shallowest thickskinne, of that barraine sort,

1036988Who Pyramus presented, in their sport,

1037989Forsooke his Scene, and entred in a brake,

1038990VVhen I did him at this aduantage take:

1039991An Asses nole I fixed on his head.

1040992Anon his Thisbie must be answered,

1041993And forth my Minnick comes. When they him spy;

1042994As wilde geese, that the creeping Fouler eye,

1043995Or russet pated choughes, many in sort

1044996(Rysing, and cawing, at the gunnes report)

1045997Seuer themselues, and madly sweepe the sky:

1046998So, at his sight, away his fellowes fly,

1047999And at our stampe, here ore and ore, one falles:

10481000He murther cryes, and helpe from Athens cals.

10491001Their sense, thus weake, lost with their feares, thus strong,

10501002Made senselesse things begin to doe them wrong.

10511003For, briers and thornes, at their apparell, snatch:

10521004Some sleeues, some hats; from yeelders, all things catch.

10531005I led them on, in this distracted feare,

10541006And left sweete Pyramus translated there: