Bottom

Flute
Must I speak now?
Quince
Ay, marry, must you, for you must understand
he goes but to see a noise that he heard and is to
come again.

Methinks, mistress, you should have little
reason for that. And yet, to say the truth, reason
and love keep little company together nowadays.
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Bottom, waking up
When my cue comes, call me,
and I will answer. My next is “Most fair Pyramus.”
Hey-ho! Peter Quince! Flute the bellows-mender!
Snout the tinker! Starveling! God’s my life! Stolen
hence and left me asleep!

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream
past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
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Bottom
Where are these lads? Where are these hearts?
Quince
Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!
Bottom
Masters, I am to discourse wonders. But ask
me not what; for, if I tell you, I am not true
Athenian. I will tell you everything right as it fell out.

And,
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Flute, as Thisbe
O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans
For parting my fair Pyramus and me.
My cherry lips have often kissed thy stones,
Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.
Bottom, as Pyramus
I see a voice! Now will I to the chink
To spy an I can hear my Thisbe’s face.
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Flute, as Thisbe
This is old Ninny’s tomb. Where is my love?
Snug, as Lion
O!
 The Lion roars.Thisbe runs off, dropping her mantle.
Demetrius
Well roared, Lion.
Theseus
Well run, Thisbe.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend,
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Hippolyta
How chance Moonshine is gone before
Thisbe comes back and finds her lover?
Theseus
She will find him by starlight.
  Enter Thisbe (Flute).
Here she comes, and her passion ends the play.
Hippolyta
Methinks she should not use a long one for
such a Pyramus. I hope she will be brief.
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