A Midsommer nightes dreame.
19901911Pat as I told you: yonder
she comes.
Enter Thisby. 19911912This. O wall, full often ha
st thou heard my mones,
19921913For parting my faire
Pyramus, and mee.
19931914My cherry lips haue often ki
st thy
stones;
19941915Thy
stones, with lime and hayire knit now againe.
19951916Pyra. I
see a voice: now will I to the chinke,
19961917To
spy and I can heare my
Thisbyes face.
Thysby?
19971918This. My loue thou art, my loue I thinke.
19981919Py. Thinke what thou wilt, I am thy louers Grace:
19991920And, like
Limander, am I tru
sty
still.
20001921This. And I, like
Helen, till the fates me kill.
20011922Pyra. Not
Shafalus, to
Procrus, was
so true.
20021923This. As
Shafalus to
Procrus, I to you.
20031924Pyr. O ki
sse mee, through the hole of this vilde wall.
20041925This. I ki
sse the walles hole; not your lips at all.
20051926Pyr. Wilt thou, at
Ninnies tombe, meete me
straight way?
20071927Thy. Tide life, tyde death, I come without delay.
20081928Wal. Thus haue I,
Wall, my part di
scharged
so;
20091929And, being done, thus wall away doth goe.
20101930Duk. Now is the Moon v
sed between the two neighbors.
20121931Deme. No remedy, my Lord, when wals are
so wilfull, to
20141933Dutch. This is the
sillie
st stu
ffe, that euer I heard.
20151934Duke. The be
st, in this kinde, are but
shadowes: and
20161935the wor
st are no wor
se, if imagination amend them.
20171936Dutch. It mu
st be your imagination, then; & not theirs.
20181937Duke. If we imagine no wor
se of them, then they of
thē- 20191938selues, they may pa
sse for excellent men. Here come two
20201939noble bea
sts, in a man and a Lyon.
20221941Lyon. You Ladies, you (who
se gentle hearts do feare
20231942The
smalle
st mon
strous mou
se, that creepes on
floore)
20241943May now, perchance, both quake and tremble here,
20251944When Lyon rough, in wilde
st rage, doth roare.
20261945Then know that I, as
Snug the Ioyner am
A