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Enter QUINCE, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELINGQUINCE
Have you sent to Bottom's house ? is he come home yet?STARVELING
He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he isFLUTE
transported.
If he come not, then the play is marred: it goesQUINCE
not forward, doth it?
It is not possible: you have not a man in allFLUTE
Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.
No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraftQUINCE
man in Athens.
Yea and the best person too; and he is a veryFLUTE
paramour for a sweet voice.
You must say 'paragon:' a paramour is, God bless us,SNUG
a thing of naught.
Enter SNUG
Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, andFLUTE
there is two or three lords and ladies more married:
if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made
men.
O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence aBOTTOM
day during his life; he could not have 'scaped
sixpence a day: an the duke had not given him
sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged;
he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in
Pyramus, or nothing.
Enter 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 notQUINCE
what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I
will tell you every thing, right as it fell out.
Let us hear, sweet Bottom.BOTTOM
Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that
the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,
good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your
pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look
o'er his part; for the short and the long is, our
play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have
clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion
pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the
lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions
nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I
do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet
comedy. No more words: away! go, away!
Exeunt
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