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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Act four of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This is a
LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Act four, Scene one,
(00:26):
the same Lysander, Demetrius, Helena and Hermia lying asleep. Enter
Titania and bottom pease blossom, cobweb, moth, mustard seed, and
other fairies attending oberon behind unseen.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed while I
thy amiable cheeks, do coy and stick musk roses in
thy sleek smooth head, and kiss thy fair large ears.
My gentle joy.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Where's pease blossom?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Ready?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Scratch my head? Pease blossom? Where's moon?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Suur?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Carb web?
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Ready?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Moon sure carb web? Good monsieur, get you your weapons
in your hand and kill me a red lipped humble
bee on the top of a thistle. And good monsieur,
bring me the honey bag. Do not freight yourself too
much in the action. Monsieur and good monsieur, have a
care of the honey bag right now. I would be
(01:39):
loath to have you overflown with the honeybag. Signore, where's
monsieur mustard seed? Ready give me your nief, Monsieur mustard seed.
Pray you leave your curtsey. Good, monsieur, what's your will?
Nothing good, monsieur, but well cavalieri cobweb to scuratch, I
(02:04):
muster the barbers. Monsieur for me, thinks I am Marvel's
airy about the face, and I'm such a tender ass.
If my air do but tickle me, I must scratch.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
What wilt thou hear? Some music? My sweet love?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I have a reasonable good air in music. Let's have
the tongues and the bones.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Truly a peck of provender? We could munsieur good dry oats.
Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay,
good hay, sweet hay. Hath no fellow.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I have a venturous fairy that shall seek the squirrel's
horde and fetch thee new nuts.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I'd rather have a handful of two of dried peas.
But I pray you let none of your people stir me.
Oh you an expossession of sleep come upon me?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Sleep thou and I will wind thee in my arms.
Fairies be gone, and be always.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Away, egeant fairies.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle gently, and twist
the female ivy sow, and rings the barky fingers of
the elm Oh, how I love thee, How I dote
on thee.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
They sleep, Enter, puck, Welcome, good robin, advancing seest thou
this sweet sight her dotage. Now I do begin to
pity for meeting her of late behind the wood, seeking
sweet favors from this hateful fool, I did upbraid her
and fall out with her, for she his hairy temples
(03:58):
then had rounded with the coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers.
And that same dew, which some time on the buds
was wont to swell like round and orient pearls, stood
now within the pretty Floweret's eyes like tears that did
their own disgrace bewail. When I had, at my pleasure
taunted her, and she, in mild terms begged my patience.
(04:22):
I then did ask of her her changeling child, which
strait she gave me, and her fairy sent to bear
him to my bower in fairyland. And now I have
the boy. I will undo this hateful imperfection of her eyes,
and gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp from off the
(04:42):
head of this Athenian swain that he awaking. When the
other dew may all to Athens back again, repair and
think no more of this night's accidents, But as the
fierce vexation of a dream. But first I will release
the fairy queen, be as thou wast wont to be see,
(05:02):
as thou wast wont to see Dian's bud or Cupid's flower.
Hath such force and blessed power? Now, my Titania, wake you,
my sweet queen.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
My oberon? What visions have I seen? Methought? I was
enamored of an.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Ass There lies your love?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
How came these things to pass?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
How mine eyes do loathe his visage?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Now silence, awhile Robin take off this head, Titania. Music
call and strike more dead than common sleep of all
these five the scents.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Music ho music such as charmeth sleep music.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Still Now when thou wakest with thine own fool's eyes.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Peep sound music, Come, my queen, take hands with me
and rock the ground. Whereon thee sleepers be now thou
and I are new in amity, and will to morrow
midnights solemnly dance in duke. Theseus house triumphantly, and bless
it to all fair prosperity. There shall the pairs of
(06:15):
faithful lovers be wedded with theseus, all in jollity.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Fairy king Attendant mock, I do you hear the morning luck.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Then, my Queen, in silence, sad trip we after the
night shade. We the globe can compass soon swifter than
the wandering moon.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Come, my lord, and in our flight, tell me how
it came this night that I, sleeping here was found
with these mortals.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
On the ground, exiant horns wended within. Enter theseus, Hippolyta, Echius,
and train.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Go one of you find out the forester. For now
our observation is performed, And since we have the varward
of the day, my love shall hear the music of
my hounds and couple in the western valley. Let them
go despatch, I say, and find the forester.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Exit and attendant.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
We will fare Queen up to the mountain's top and
mark the musical confusion of hounds and echo in conjunction.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
I was with Hercules and Catmus once, when in a
wood of crete they bathe the bear with hounds of Sparta.
Never did I hear such gallant chiding, For besides the groves,
the skies, the fountains, every region near seemed all one
mutual cry. I never heard so musical a discord, such
sweet thunder.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, so fluid,
so sanded, and their heads are hung with ears that
sweep away the morning dew, crooked knead and dew lapped
like Thessalian bulls, slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth,
like bells, each under each A crime more tunable was
never holed to, nor cheered with horn in crete in Sparta,
(08:10):
nor in Thessaly. Judge what you hear but soft? What
nymphs are these?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
My Lord? This is my daughter here asleep, and this Lysander,
this Demetrius, is this Helena, old niddars Helena. I wonder
of their being here together.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
No doubt they rose up early to observe the right
of may, and hearing our intent, came hearing grace, our solemnity.
But speak, egeus. Is not this the day that Hermia
should give answer of her choice. It is, my lord,
go bid the huntsmen, wake them with their horns.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Horns and shout within Lysander, Demetrius, Helena and Hermia wake
and start up.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Good morrow, friends, Saint Valentine has past. Begin these wood birds,
But to couple now?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Pardon, my lord, I pray you.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
All stand up. I know you too are rival enemies.
How comes this gentle concord in the world, that hatred
is so far from jealousy, to sleep by hate and
fear no enmity.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
My lord, I shall reply amazedly, half sleep, half waking.
But as yet I swear I cannot truly say how
I came here, But as I think, for truly would
I speak? And now do I bethink me? So it
is I came with Hermia. Hither our intent was to
(09:47):
be gone from Athens, where we might without the peril
of the Athenian law.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Enough enough, my Lord, you have enough. I beg the law,
the law upon his head. They would have stolen a
They would Demetrius thereby to have defeated you and me,
You of your wife, and me of my consent, of
my consent that she should be your wife.
Speaker 10 (10:12):
My Lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth, of
this their purpose hitherto this wood, and I, in fury
hither followed them, Fair Helena in fancy following me. But
my good Lord, I WoT not by what power, but
by some power. It is my love to Hermia, melted
as the snow seems to me now as the remembrance
(10:34):
of an idle god, which in my childhood I did
dote upon, And all the faith the virtue of my heart,
the object and the pleasure of mine eye is only
Helena to her, my Lord, was I betrothed ere I
saw Hermia, But like in sickness did I loathe this food.
But as in health, come to my natural taste. Now
(10:58):
I do wish it, it, long for it, and will
for evermore be true to it.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Fair lovers, you are fortunately met of this discourse. We
more will hear. Anon Egius, I will overbear your will.
For in the temple, by and by with us these
couples shall eternally be knit. And for the morning now
is something worn our purpose. Huntings shall be set aside
away with us to Athens three and three will hold
(11:30):
a feast in great solemnity.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Come Hippolyta exeant theseus Hippolyta, Egius and train.
Speaker 10 (11:40):
These things seem small and undistinguishable.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Methinks I see these things with parted eye when everything
seems double.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
So manthinks, and I have found Dmitrius like a jewel
mine own and not mine own?
Speaker 10 (11:56):
Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to
me that yet we sleep we dream? Do not you
think the duke was here and bid us follow him?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yay, and my father.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
And Topolita, and he did bid us follow to the temple.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
Why then we are awake? Let's follow him? And by
the way, let us recount our dreams.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Exeunt awaking?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
How am my cue comes? Call me and I will
answer My next is most fair? Pyramus, hey ho pay
her quence? Float the bellows mender is not the tinker
(12:47):
startling case my life stolen hands.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And left me asleep?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Are you that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Most rare vision? I've had a dream. Pass the wit
of man to say what dream it was. Man is
but an ass If you go about to expound this
dream me thought I would. There is no man can
tell what me thought I was, and me thought I had.
(13:26):
The man is but a patch of fool. If he
will have to say what we thought I had the
eye of man, hath not heard the ear of man
hath not seen. Man's hand is not able to taste
his tongue to conceive. No is hat to report what
my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write
a ballad of this dream. It shall be called Bottoms Dream,
(13:54):
because it hath no bomb, and I will sing it
in the latter end of a play before the duke peradventure.
To make it the more gracious, I shall sing ye
out our death.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Humph, exit scene too. Athens Quince's house, Enter Quince, flute,
snout and starveling.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Have you sent to Bottom's house? Is he come home? Yet?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He cannot be heard of.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Out of doubt he is transported.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
If he come not, then the play is marred. It
goes not forward, does it?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
It is not possible. You have not a man in
all Athens able to discharge pyramids.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
But he no, he hath simply the best wheat of
any handigraphs made in Athens.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yea, and the best person too. And he is a
very paramour for a sweet voice.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
You must say paragon a padamore is God bless us
a thing of naught?
Speaker 12 (15:06):
Enter snug masters, the Duke is coming from the temple,
and there is two or three lords and ladies more married.
If our sport had gone forward, we had all been
made men.
Speaker 11 (15:18):
Oh Swede bully Bottom. Thus had he lost sixpence a
day during his life, he could not have escaped sixpence
a day. And the Duke had not given him sixpence
a day to plain pitamis, I'll be hanged. He would
have deserved it. Sixpence a day in pinnamus or nothing,
Enter bottom.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Where are these lads? Where are these hearts bottom? Oh,
most courageous day, Oh, most happier masters. I am to
discourse wonders. But ask me now, for if I tell you,
I am no true Athenian. Oh, I will tell you everything.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Right is it?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Let us hear, sweet Bottom, not.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
A word of me. All that I will tell you
is that the Duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,
good strings to your birds, new ribbons to your pumps.
Meet presently at the palace. Every man look over his
part for the show, and the lung is our play
is preferred. In any case, Let this we have clean linen,
(16:26):
and let not in that plays the lion pare 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 the way them say it is a sweet comedy.
No more words, Away, go
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Away, exellant and of Act four of A Midsummer Night's
Dream by William Shakespeare.
Act four of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This is a
LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Act four, Scene one,
(00:26):
the same Lysander, Demetrius, Helena and Hermia lying asleep. Enter
Titania and bottom pease blossom, cobweb, moth, mustard seed, and
other fairies attending oberon behind unseen.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed while I
thy amiable cheeks, do coy and stick musk roses in
thy sleek smooth head, and kiss thy fair large ears.
My gentle joy.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Where's pease blossom?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Ready?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Scratch my head? Pease blossom? Where's moon?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Suur?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Carb web?
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Ready?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Moon sure carb web? Good monsieur, get you your weapons
in your hand and kill me a red lipped humble
bee on the top of a thistle. And good monsieur,
bring me the honey bag. Do not freight yourself too
much in the action. Monsieur and good monsieur, have a
care of the honey bag right now. I would be
(01:39):
loath to have you overflown with the honeybag. Signore, where's
monsieur mustard seed? Ready give me your nief, Monsieur mustard seed.
Pray you leave your curtsey. Good, monsieur, what's your will?
Nothing good, monsieur, but well cavalieri cobweb to scuratch, I
(02:04):
muster the barbers. Monsieur for me, thinks I am Marvel's
airy about the face, and I'm such a tender ass.
If my air do but tickle me, I must scratch.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
What wilt thou hear? Some music? My sweet love?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I have a reasonable good air in music. Let's have
the tongues and the bones.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Truly a peck of provender? We could munsieur good dry oats.
Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay,
good hay, sweet hay. Hath no fellow.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I have a venturous fairy that shall seek the squirrel's
horde and fetch thee new nuts.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I'd rather have a handful of two of dried peas.
But I pray you let none of your people stir me.
Oh you an expossession of sleep come upon me?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Sleep thou and I will wind thee in my arms.
Fairies be gone, and be always.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Away, egeant fairies.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle gently, and twist
the female ivy sow, and rings the barky fingers of
the elm Oh, how I love thee, How I dote
on thee.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
They sleep, Enter, puck, Welcome, good robin, advancing seest thou
this sweet sight her dotage. Now I do begin to
pity for meeting her of late behind the wood, seeking
sweet favors from this hateful fool, I did upbraid her
and fall out with her, for she his hairy temples
(03:58):
then had rounded with the coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers.
And that same dew, which some time on the buds
was wont to swell like round and orient pearls, stood
now within the pretty Floweret's eyes like tears that did
their own disgrace bewail. When I had, at my pleasure
taunted her, and she, in mild terms begged my patience.
(04:22):
I then did ask of her her changeling child, which
strait she gave me, and her fairy sent to bear
him to my bower in fairyland. And now I have
the boy. I will undo this hateful imperfection of her eyes,
and gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp from off the
(04:42):
head of this Athenian swain that he awaking. When the
other dew may all to Athens back again, repair and
think no more of this night's accidents, But as the
fierce vexation of a dream. But first I will release
the fairy queen, be as thou wast wont to be see,
(05:02):
as thou wast wont to see Dian's bud or Cupid's flower.
Hath such force and blessed power? Now, my Titania, wake you,
my sweet queen.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
My oberon? What visions have I seen? Methought? I was
enamored of an.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Ass There lies your love?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
How came these things to pass?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
How mine eyes do loathe his visage?
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Now silence, awhile Robin take off this head, Titania. Music
call and strike more dead than common sleep of all
these five the scents.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Music ho music such as charmeth sleep music.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Still Now when thou wakest with thine own fool's eyes.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Peep sound music, Come, my queen, take hands with me
and rock the ground. Whereon thee sleepers be now thou
and I are new in amity, and will to morrow
midnights solemnly dance in duke. Theseus house triumphantly, and bless
it to all fair prosperity. There shall the pairs of
(06:15):
faithful lovers be wedded with theseus, all in jollity.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Fairy king Attendant mock, I do you hear the morning luck.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Then, my Queen, in silence, sad trip we after the
night shade. We the globe can compass soon swifter than
the wandering moon.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Come, my lord, and in our flight, tell me how
it came this night that I, sleeping here was found
with these mortals.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
On the ground, exiant horns wended within. Enter theseus, Hippolyta, Echius,
and train.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Go one of you find out the forester. For now
our observation is performed, And since we have the varward
of the day, my love shall hear the music of
my hounds and couple in the western valley. Let them
go despatch, I say, and find the forester.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Exit and attendant.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
We will fare Queen up to the mountain's top and
mark the musical confusion of hounds and echo in conjunction.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
I was with Hercules and Catmus once, when in a
wood of crete they bathe the bear with hounds of Sparta.
Never did I hear such gallant chiding, For besides the groves,
the skies, the fountains, every region near seemed all one
mutual cry. I never heard so musical a discord, such
sweet thunder.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, so fluid,
so sanded, and their heads are hung with ears that
sweep away the morning dew, crooked knead and dew lapped
like Thessalian bulls, slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth,
like bells, each under each A crime more tunable was
never holed to, nor cheered with horn in crete in Sparta,
(08:10):
nor in Thessaly. Judge what you hear but soft? What
nymphs are these?
Speaker 6 (08:17):
My Lord? This is my daughter here asleep, and this Lysander,
this Demetrius, is this Helena, old niddars Helena. I wonder
of their being here together.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
No doubt they rose up early to observe the right
of may, and hearing our intent, came hearing grace, our solemnity.
But speak, egeus. Is not this the day that Hermia
should give answer of her choice. It is, my lord,
go bid the huntsmen, wake them with their horns.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Horns and shout within Lysander, Demetrius, Helena and Hermia wake
and start up.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Good morrow, friends, Saint Valentine has past. Begin these wood birds,
But to couple now?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Pardon, my lord, I pray you.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
All stand up. I know you too are rival enemies.
How comes this gentle concord in the world, that hatred
is so far from jealousy, to sleep by hate and
fear no enmity.
Speaker 9 (09:25):
My lord, I shall reply amazedly, half sleep, half waking.
But as yet I swear I cannot truly say how
I came here, But as I think, for truly would
I speak? And now do I bethink me? So it
is I came with Hermia. Hither our intent was to
(09:47):
be gone from Athens, where we might without the peril
of the Athenian law.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Enough enough, my Lord, you have enough. I beg the law,
the law upon his head. They would have stolen a
They would Demetrius thereby to have defeated you and me,
You of your wife, and me of my consent, of
my consent that she should be your wife.
Speaker 10 (10:12):
My Lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth, of
this their purpose hitherto this wood, and I, in fury
hither followed them, Fair Helena in fancy following me. But
my good Lord, I WoT not by what power, but
by some power. It is my love to Hermia, melted
as the snow seems to me now as the remembrance
(10:34):
of an idle god, which in my childhood I did
dote upon, And all the faith the virtue of my heart,
the object and the pleasure of mine eye is only
Helena to her, my Lord, was I betrothed ere I
saw Hermia, But like in sickness did I loathe this food.
But as in health, come to my natural taste. Now
(10:58):
I do wish it, it, long for it, and will
for evermore be true to it.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Fair lovers, you are fortunately met of this discourse. We
more will hear. Anon Egius, I will overbear your will.
For in the temple, by and by with us these
couples shall eternally be knit. And for the morning now
is something worn our purpose. Huntings shall be set aside
away with us to Athens three and three will hold
(11:30):
a feast in great solemnity.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Come Hippolyta exeant theseus Hippolyta, Egius and train.
Speaker 10 (11:40):
These things seem small and undistinguishable.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Methinks I see these things with parted eye when everything
seems double.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
So manthinks, and I have found Dmitrius like a jewel
mine own and not mine own?
Speaker 10 (11:56):
Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to
me that yet we sleep we dream? Do not you
think the duke was here and bid us follow him?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yay, and my father.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
And Topolita, and he did bid us follow to the temple.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
Why then we are awake? Let's follow him? And by
the way, let us recount our dreams.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Exeunt awaking?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
How am my cue comes? Call me and I will
answer My next is most fair? Pyramus, hey ho pay
her quence? Float the bellows mender is not the tinker
(12:47):
startling case my life stolen hands.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And left me asleep?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Are you that.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Most rare vision? I've had a dream. Pass the wit
of man to say what dream it was. Man is
but an ass If you go about to expound this
dream me thought I would. There is no man can
tell what me thought I was, and me thought I had.
(13:26):
The man is but a patch of fool. If he
will have to say what we thought I had the
eye of man, hath not heard the ear of man
hath not seen. Man's hand is not able to taste
his tongue to conceive. No is hat to report what
my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write
a ballad of this dream. It shall be called Bottoms Dream,
(13:54):
because it hath no bomb, and I will sing it
in the latter end of a play before the duke peradventure.
To make it the more gracious, I shall sing ye
out our death.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Humph, exit scene too. Athens Quince's house, Enter Quince, flute,
snout and starveling.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Have you sent to Bottom's house? Is he come home? Yet?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He cannot be heard of.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Out of doubt he is transported.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
If he come not, then the play is marred. It
goes not forward, does it?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
It is not possible. You have not a man in
all Athens able to discharge pyramids.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
But he no, he hath simply the best wheat of
any handigraphs made in Athens.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yea, and the best person too. And he is a
very paramour for a sweet voice.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
You must say paragon a padamore is God bless us
a thing of naught?
Speaker 12 (15:06):
Enter snug masters, the Duke is coming from the temple,
and there is two or three lords and ladies more married.
If our sport had gone forward, we had all been
made men.
Speaker 11 (15:18):
Oh Swede bully Bottom. Thus had he lost sixpence a
day during his life, he could not have escaped sixpence
a day. And the Duke had not given him sixpence
a day to plain pitamis, I'll be hanged. He would
have deserved it. Sixpence a day in pinnamus or nothing,
Enter bottom.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Where are these lads? Where are these hearts bottom? Oh,
most courageous day, Oh, most happier masters. I am to
discourse wonders. But ask me now, for if I tell you,
I am no true Athenian. Oh, I will tell you everything.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Right is it?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Let us hear, sweet Bottom, not.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
A word of me. All that I will tell you
is that the Duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,
good strings to your birds, new ribbons to your pumps.
Meet presently at the palace. Every man look over his
part for the show, and the lung is our play
is preferred. In any case, Let this we have clean linen,
(16:26):
and let not in that plays the lion pare 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 the way them say it is a sweet comedy.
No more words, Away, go
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Away, exellant and of Act four of A Midsummer Night's
Dream by William Shakespeare.
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