17391670hand is not able to taste, 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; because 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

17451676it at her death.

17471678Quin. Haue you sent to Bottoms house? Is he come

17481679home, yet?

17491680Flut. Hee cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is trans-

17501681ported.

17511682Thys. If hee come not, then the Play is mard. It goes

17521683not forward. Doth it?

17531684Quin. It is not possible. You haue not a man, in all A-

17541685thens, able to discharge Pyramus, but he.

17551686Thys. No, hee hath simply the best wit of any handy-

17561687craftman, in Athens.

17571688Quin. Yea, and the best person to, and hee is a very

17581689Paramour, for a sweete voice.

17591690This. You must say, Paragon. A Paramour is (God

17601691blesse vs) a thing of nought.

17621693Snug. Masters, 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

17651696beene made men.

17661697Thys. O sweete bully Bottome. Thus hath hee lost 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 deserued it. Six pence a day, in Pyramus,