William Shakespeare

Name: A Midsummer-Night’s Dream — act iii, sc. i
Author: William Shakespeare

A Midsummer-Night’s Dream — act iii… (1914)

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“A Midsummer-Night’s Dream — act iii, sc. i”, published in 1914, is a work by William Shakespeare. It explores elements such as Pyramus, Thisby and joiner.

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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream — act iii… (1914)

“ Quince.
If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down, every mother’s son, and rehearse your parts. Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your speech, enter into that brake: and so every one according to his cue.
Enter Puck behind.
Puck.
What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?
What, a play toward! I’ll be an auditor;
An actor too perhaps, if I see cause.
Quince.
Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.
Bottom.
Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet,—
Quince. ”

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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream — act iii… (1914)

“ Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be written in eight and six.
Bottom.
No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.
Snout.
Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?
Starveling.
I fear it, I promise you.
Bottom.
Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves: to bring in—God shield us!—a lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living; and we ought to look to ’t.
Snout.
Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion. ”

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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream — act iii… (1914)

“ I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny’s tomb.
Quince.
‘Ninus’ tomb,’ man: why, you must not speak that yet; that you answer to Pyramus: you speak all your part at once, cues and all. Pyramus enter: your cue is past; it is, ‘never tire.’
Flute.
O,—As true as truest horse, that yet would never tire.
Re-enter Puck, and Bottom with an ass’s head.
Bottom.
If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.
Quince.
O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted.
Pray, masters! fly, masters! Help! ”

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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream — act iii… (1914)

“ If you think I come hither as a lion, it were pity of my life: no, I am no such thing; I am a man as other men are;’ and there indeed let him name his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner.
Quince.
Well, it shall be so. But there is two hard things; that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber; for, you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight. ”

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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream — act iii… (1914)

“ Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the more the pity that some honest neighbours will not make them friends. ”

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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream — act iii… (1914)

“ There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies cannot abide. How answer you that?
Snout.
By’r lakin, a parlous fear.
Starveling.
I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.
Bottom.
Not a whit: I have a device to make all well. Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to say, we will do no harm with our swords and that Pyramus is not killed indeed ”

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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream — act iii… (1914)

“ Why, then may you leave a casement of the great chamber-window, where we play, open, and the moon may shine in at the casement.
Quince.
Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to present, the person of Moonshine. Then, there is another thing: we must have a wall in the great chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby, says the story, did talk through the chink of a wall.
Snout.
You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom? ”

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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream — act iii… (1914)

“ Some man or other must present Wall; and let him have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast about him, to signify wall; and let him. hold his fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisby whisper. ”

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