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Enter QUINCE , FLUTE , SNOUT , and STARVELING
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Enter QUINCE , FLUTE , SNOUT , and STARVELING
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QUINCE Have you sent to Bottom’s house? Is he come home yet?
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QUINCE Have you sent to Bottom’s house? Is he come home yet?
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STARVELING He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported.
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STARVELING He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported.
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FLUTE If he come not, then the play is marred. It goes not forward. Doth it?
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FLUTE If he come not, then the play is marred. It goes not forward. Doth it?
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QUINCE It is not possible. You have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.
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QUINCE It is not possible. You have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.
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FLUTE |
FLUTE |
QUINCE Yea, and the best person too. And he is a very paramour for a sweet voice.
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QUINCE Yea, and the best person too. And he is a very paramour for a sweet voice.
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FLUTE You must say “paragon.” A “paramour” is, God bless us, a thing of naught.
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FLUTE You must say “paragon.” A “paramour” is, God bless us, a thing of naught.
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Enter SNUG
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Enter SNUG
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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.
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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.
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FLUTE O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a 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.
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FLUTE O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a 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.
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Enter BOTTOM
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Enter BOTTOM
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BOTTOM Where are these lads? Where are these hearts?
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BOTTOM Where are these lads? Where are these hearts?
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QUINCE Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!
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QUINCE Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!
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BOTTOM Masters, I am to discourse wonders—but ask me not what, for if I tell you I am no true Athenian. I will tell you everything, right as it fell out.
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BOTTOM Masters, I am to discourse wonders—but ask me not what, for if I tell you I am no true Athenian. I will tell you everything, right as it fell out.
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QUINCE Let us hear, sweet Bottom.
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QUINCE Let us hear, sweet Bottom.
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BOTTOM |
BOTTOM |
Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
Enter QUINCE , FLUTE , SNOUT , and STARVELING
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Enter QUINCE , FLUTE , SNOUT , and STARVELING
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QUINCE Have you sent to Bottom’s house? Is he come home yet?
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QUINCE Have you sent to Bottom’s house? Is he come home yet?
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STARVELING He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported.
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STARVELING He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported.
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FLUTE If he come not, then the play is marred. It goes not forward. Doth it?
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FLUTE If he come not, then the play is marred. It goes not forward. Doth it?
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QUINCE It is not possible. You have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.
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QUINCE It is not possible. You have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.
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FLUTE |
FLUTE |
QUINCE Yea, and the best person too. And he is a very paramour for a sweet voice.
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QUINCE Yea, and the best person too. And he is a very paramour for a sweet voice.
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FLUTE You must say “paragon.” A “paramour” is, God bless us, a thing of naught.
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FLUTE You must say “paragon.” A “paramour” is, God bless us, a thing of naught.
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Enter SNUG
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Enter SNUG
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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.
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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.
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FLUTE O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a 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.
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FLUTE O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a 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.
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Enter BOTTOM
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Enter BOTTOM
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BOTTOM Where are these lads? Where are these hearts?
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BOTTOM Where are these lads? Where are these hearts?
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QUINCE Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!
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QUINCE Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!
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BOTTOM Masters, I am to discourse wonders—but ask me not what, for if I tell you I am no true Athenian. I will tell you everything, right as it fell out.
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BOTTOM Masters, I am to discourse wonders—but ask me not what, for if I tell you I am no true Athenian. I will tell you everything, right as it fell out.
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QUINCE Let us hear, sweet Bottom.
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QUINCE Let us hear, sweet Bottom.
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BOTTOM |
BOTTOM |
Exeunt
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Exeunt
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