BOTTOM
Are we all here?
BOTTOM
Peter Quince,--
BOTTOM
There are parts of this play that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies cannot abide.
BOTTOM
No: I have a plan to make all well.
Write me a prologue; and let it say, I will do no harm with my sword, and that
I am not killed.
Also assure them that I, Pyramus, am not
Pyramus, but Bottom.
BOTTOM
No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.
BOTTOM
Masters, we must consider the lion.
A lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing.
BOTTOM
Nay, he must put his head through the lion's neck and saying thus, or to the same defect,
--'Ladies,'--
Or 'Fair-ladies--I would wish you,'-- or 'I would request you,'--
Or
'I would entreat you,--not to fear, not to tremble!…show more content… No I am no such thing; I am a man as other men are;'
BOTTOM
Look in the almanac!
BOTTOM
Why, then don’t we just open the window?
BOTTOM
Some man must be a wall: and hold his fingers thus,
As the cranny though which Pyramus and Thisbe whisper.
BOTTOM
“Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet,--”
BOTTOM
“--odours savours sweet:
So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby dear.
But hark, a voice! stay thou but here awhile,
And by and by I will to thee appear.”
Exit
BOTTOM
“If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.”
BOTTOM
Why do they run away?
Re-enter SNOUT
BOTTOM
What do you see? you see an maple-head of your own, do you?
I see their trickery: this is to make an acorn of me; to fright me, if they could.
But I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid.
Sings
“The ousel cock so black of hue,
With orange-tawny bill,
The throstle with his note so true,
The wren with little
