A Midsommer nightes dreame.
17391670hand is not able to ta
ste, his tongue to conceiue, nor his
17401671hearte to report, what my dreame was. I will get
Pet- 17411672ter Quince to write a Ballet of this dreame: it
shall be
17421673call'd
Bottoms Dreame; becau
se it hath no bottome: and
17431674I will
sing it in the latter end of a Play, before the Duke.
17441675Peraduenture, to make it the more gratious, I
shall
sing
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