Page 2664 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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Enter (Puck, and) Bottom with the ass-head (on).
BOT T OM
If I were fair, Thisbe, I were only thine. [95]
QUINCE
O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted! Pray, masters! Fly, masters!
Help!
Exeunt Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, and Starveling.
PUCK
I’ll follow you: I’ll lead you about a round!
Through bog, through bush, through brake, through briar;
Sometime a horse I’ll be, sometime a hound, [100]
A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;
And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,
Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.
Exit.
BOT T OM
Why do they run away? This is a knavery of them to make me afeard.
[105]
Enter Snout.
SNOUT
O Bottom, thou art changed! What do I see on thee?
BOT T OM
What do you see? You see an ass-head of your own, do you?
(Exit Snout.)
Enter Quince.
QUINCE
Bless thee, Bottom, bless thee! Thou art [110] translated.
Exit.
BOT T OM
I see their knavery; this is to make an ass of me, to fright me, if they
