Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . , sweet Bottom. Bottom. [No]; not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that the Duke hathdined. Get your apparel together ; good strings0 to your beards, new ribbons to yourpumps : meet presently at the palace; every man look oer his part; for, the short andthe long is, our play is [presented]. In any case let Thisbe have clean linen, and let a This probably refers to the many-colored dress worn by the professiona
Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . , sweet Bottom. Bottom. [No]; not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that the Duke hathdined. Get your apparel together ; good strings0 to your beards, new ribbons to yourpumps : meet presently at the palace; every man look oer his part; for, the short andthe long is, our play is [presented]. In any case let Thisbe have clean linen, and let a This probably refers to the many-colored dress worn by the professional fools or jestersin those days. b That is, after his death as Pyramus, in the Strings — to tie on the false beards. 58 SHAKESPEARE FOR THE YOUNG FOLK. not him that plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out for the lions , most dear actors, eat no onions, nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath, andI do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet comedy. No more words : away !go ; away ! And, too delighted at Bottoms reappearance to stop for the further satisfyingof their curiosity, they all went out noisily to prepare for the VIII.
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