. Shakespeare's comedy of A midsummer-night's dream . call me,and I will answer : my next is, Most fairPyramus. Heigh-ho !—Peter Quince ! Flute, thebellows-mender ! Snout, the tinker ! Starveling!—Gods my life, stolen hence, and left me asleep !I have had a most rare vision. I have had adream, past the wit of man to say what dream itwas : man is but an ass if he go about to expoundthis dream. Methought I was,—there is no mancan tell what. Methought I was,—and methought ACT IV. 141 Sc. I. A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM I had,—but man is but a patched fool, if he willoffer to say what methought I had.
. Shakespeare's comedy of A midsummer-night's dream . call me,and I will answer : my next is, Most fairPyramus. Heigh-ho !—Peter Quince ! Flute, thebellows-mender ! Snout, the tinker ! Starveling!—Gods my life, stolen hence, and left me asleep !I have had a most rare vision. I have had adream, past the wit of man to say what dream itwas : man is but an ass if he go about to expoundthis dream. Methought I was,—there is no mancan tell what. Methought I was,—and methought ACT IV. 141 Sc. I. A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM I had,—but man is but a patched fool, if he willoffer to say what methought I had. The eye ofman hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen,mans hand is not able to taste, his tongue to con-ceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of thisdream : it shall be called Bottoms Dream, becauseit hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the latterend of a play, before the Duke : peradventure, g tomake it the more gracious, I shall sing it at herdeath. \JExit. ACT IV. 142 Sc. Helena. O weary night, 0 long and tedious night.
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