A Midsommer nightes dreame.
19521876The. I wonder, if the Lyon be to
speake.
19531877Demet. No wonder, my Lord. One Lyon may, when
19551879Exit Lyon, Thysby, and Mooneshine. 19561880Wall. In this
same enterlude it doth befall,
19571881That I, one
Flute (by name) pre
sent a wall:
19581882And
such a wall, as I would haue you thinke
19591883That had in it a cranied hole or chinke:
19601884Through which the louers,
Pyramus, and
Thisby,
19611885Did whi
sper often, very
secretly.
19621886This lome, this roughca
st, and this
stone doth
showe,
19631887That I am that
same wall: the truth is
so.
19641888And this the cranie is, right and
sini
ster,
19651889Through which the fearefull louers are to whi
sper.
19661890The. Would you de
sire lime and haire to
speake better?
19681891Deme. It is the wittie
st partition, that euer I heard di
s- 19701893The. Pyramus drawes neare the wall:
silence.
19721894Py. O grim lookt night, o night, with hue
so blacke,
19731895O night, which euer art, when day is not:
19741896O night, O night, alacke, alacke, alacke,
19751897I feare my
Thisbyes promi
se is forgot.
19761898And thou ? wall, ?
sweete, ? louely wall,
19771899That
stand
st betweene her fathers ground and mine,
19781900Thou wall, ? wall, O
sweete and louely wall,
19791901Showe mee thy chinke, to blink through, with mine eyne.
19801902Thankes curteous wall.
Ioue shield thee well, for this.
19811903But what
see I? No
Thisby doe I
see.
19821904O wicked wall, through whome I
see no bli
sse,
19831905Cur
st be thy
stones, for thus deceiuing mee.
19841906The. The wall mee thinkes, being
sen
sible,
should cur
se
19861908Pyr. No, in truth Sir, he
should not.
Deceiuing mee is
19871909Thisbyes cue:
she is to enter now, and I am to
spy
19881910Her through the wall. You
shall
see it will fall
Pat