. Shakespeare's comedy of A midsummer-night's dream . -;•. SNOUT A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM Puck. Thou speakst aright ; I am that merry wanderer of the jest to Oberon, and make him smile,When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,Neighing in likeness of a filly foal :And sometime lurk I in a gossips bowl,In very likeness of a roasted crab,And when she drinks, against her lips I bobAnd on her withered dewlap pour the wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me ;Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,And tailor cries, and falls into a cough ;An

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. Shakespeare's comedy of A midsummer-night's dream . -;•. SNOUT A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM Puck. Thou speakst aright ; I am that merry wanderer of the jest to Oberon, and make him smile,When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,Neighing in likeness of a filly foal :And sometime lurk I in a gossips bowl,In very likeness of a roasted crab,And when she drinks, against her lips I bobAnd on her withered dewlap pour the wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me ;Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,And tailor cries, and falls into a cough ;And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh, And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swearA merrier hour was never wasted , room, fairy ! here comes Oberon. Fairy. And here my mistress. Would that he weregone ! Enter, from one side, OBERON, with his train ; from the other, TITANIA, with hers. Oberon. Ill met by moonlight, proud What, jealous Oberon ! Fairies, skip hence : I have forsworn his bed and Tarry,

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