19901911Pat as I told you: yonder she comes. Enter Thisby.

19911912This. O wall, full often hast thou heard my mones,

19921913For parting my faire Pyramus, and mee.

19931914My cherry lips haue often kist 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 trusty 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 kisse mee, through the hole of this vilde wall.

20041925This. I kisse 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 discharged so;

20091929And, being done, thus wall away doth goe.

20101930Duk. Now is the Moon vsed between the two neighbors.

20121931Deme. No remedy, my Lord, when wals are so wilfull, to

20131932heare without warning.

20141933Dutch. This is the silliest stuffe, that euer I heard.

20151934Duke. The best, in this kinde, are but shadowes: and

20161935the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.

20171936Dutch. It must be your imagination, then; & not theirs.

20181937Duke. If we imagine no worse of them, then they of thē-

20191938selues, they may passe for excellent men. Here come two

20201939noble beasts, in a man and a Lyon.

20221941Lyon. You Ladies, you (whose gentle hearts do feare

20231942The smallest monstrous mouse, that creepes on floore)

20241943May now, perchance, both quake and tremble here,

20251944When Lyon rough, in wildest rage, doth roare.

20261945Then know that I, as Snug the Ioyner am