| Enter QUINCE,
FLUTE, SNOUT, and
STARVELING |
|
| QUINCE, FLUTE,
SNOUT, and STARVELING
enter. |
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| | QUINCE |
| |
Have you sent to Bottom's house? Is he come home
yet? |
|
| QUINCE |
|
Have you sent anyone to Bottom's house? Has he come
home yet? |
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| | STARVELING |
| |
He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported. |
|
| STARVELING |
|
No one's heard from him. I'm sure
he's been kidnapped. |
|
| | FLUTE |
| |
If he come not, then the play is marred. It goes not forward. Doth
it? |
|
| FLUTE |
|
If he doesn't show up, the play is ruined. It
won't go on. Will it? |
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| | QUINCE |
| |
It is not possible. You have not a man in all Athens able to
discharge Pyramus but he. |
|
| QUINCE |
|
No, it would be impossible. He's the only person in
Athens who can play Pyramus. |
|
| | FLUTE |
| 5 |
No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft man in
Athens. |
|
| FLUTE |
|
Definitely. He's quite simply the smartest working-man
in Athens. |
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| | QUINCE |
| |
Yea, and the best person too. And he is a very paramour for a
sweet voice. |
|
| QUINCE |
|
Yes, and the best looking too. And his voice is the paramour of
sweetness. |
|
| | FLUTE |
| |
You must say “paragon.” A
“paramour” is, God bless us, a thing of
naught. |
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| FLUTE |
|
You mean “paragon.” A “paramour”
is something bad. |
|
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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. |
|
| SNUG |
|
The duke's leaving the temple. Two or three more lords
and ladies have been married too. If we'd been able to
put on our play, we would have had it made. |
|
| | 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 |
|
| FLUTE |
|
Oh that great, funny guy, Bottom! He would have gotten a pension
of six pence a day for his whole life. Six pence a day
would've been forced on him. I'll be damned if
the duke wouldn't have given him six pence a day for
playing Pyramus. And he would have |
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