The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . r orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your French-crown-coloured beard, your perfect Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and then you will play bare-faced.—But, masters, here are your parts : and I am to intreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night: and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there we will 430 A MIDSUMMEE-NIGHT S DREAM. [act I. rehearse: for if we meet in the city we shall be doggd with company, andour devices known


The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere . r orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your French-crown-coloured beard, your perfect Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and then you will play bare-faced.—But, masters, here are your parts : and I am to intreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night: and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there we will 430 A MIDSUMMEE-NIGHT S DREAM. [act I. rehearse: for if we meet in the city we shall be doggd with company, andour devices known. In the mean time I will draw a bill of properties ^such as our play wants. I pray you fail me not. BoT. We will meet; and there we may rehearse more obscenely and courageous-ly. Take pains ; be perfect; adieu. QuiN. At the dukes oak we meet. BoT. Enough. Hold, or cut bow-strings ^. [Exeunt. Capell says, this is a proverbial expression derived from the days of archery:— When a partywas made at butts, assurance of meeting was given in the words of that [ I will roar you an t were any nightingale.]


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