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Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
275 |
Marry, our play is, The most lamentable comedy, and
most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.
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2 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
282 |
You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.
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3 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
283 |
What is Pyramus? a lover, or a tyrant?
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4 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
306 |
It is the lady that Pyramus must love.
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5 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Bottom |
310 |
An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I'll
speak in a monstrous little voice. 'Thisne,
Thisne;' 'Ah, Pyramus, lover dear! thy Thisby dear,
and lady dear!'
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6 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
314 |
No, no; you must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby.
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7 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2] |
Quince |
341 |
You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a
sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a
summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man:
therefore you must needs play Pyramus.
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8 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Bottom |
827 |
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?
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9 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Bottom |
833 |
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; and, for the more
better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not
Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them
out of fear.
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10 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Quince |
861 |
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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11 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Quince |
871 |
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.
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12 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Bottom |
878 |
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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13 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Quince |
883 |
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.
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14 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Quince |
893 |
Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.
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15 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Puck |
901 |
A stranger Pyramus than e'er played here.
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16 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Flute |
906 |
Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,
Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier,
Most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely Jew,
As true as truest horse that yet would never tire,
I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb.
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17 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1] |
Quince |
911 |
'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.'
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18 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 2] |
Puck |
1036 |
My mistress with a monster is in love.
Near to her close and consecrated bower,
While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,
Were met together to rehearse a play
Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day.
The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,
Who Pyramus presented, in their sport
Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake
When I did him at this advantage take,
An ass's nole I fixed on his head:
Anon his Thisbe must be answered,
And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
Rising and cawing at the gun's report,
Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,
So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;
And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls;
He murder cries and help from Athens calls.
Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears
thus strong,
Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;
For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;
Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all
things catch.
I led them on in this distracted fear,
And left sweet Pyramus translated there:
When in that moment, so it came to pass,
Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.
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19 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1] |
Bottom |
1762 |
[Awaking] When my cue comes, call me, and I will
answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-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: man is but an ass, if he go
about to expound this dream. Methought I was—there
is no man can tell what. Methought I was,—and
methought I had,—but man is but a patched fool, if
he will offer to say what methought 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, nor his heart to report, what my dream
was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of
this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,
because it hath no bottom; 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 it at her death.
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20 |
Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 2] |
Quince |
1789 |
It is not possible: you have not a man in all
Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.
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