Page 2697 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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It is not possible. You have not a man in all
Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.
FLUT E
No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft man in Athens. [10]
QUINCE
Yea, and the best person too; and he is a very paramour for a sweet voice.
FLUT E
You must say paragon. A paramour is, God bless us, a thing of naught.
Enter Snug the Joiner.
SNUG
Masters, the Duke is coming from the temple, and [15] there is two or
three lords and ladies more married. If our sport had gone forward, we had
all been made men.
FLUT E
O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a day during his life; he
could not have ’scaped sixpence a day. And the Duke had not given him
sixpence a day [20] for playing Pyramus, I’ll be hanged. He would have
deserved it: sixpence a day in Pyramus, or nothing.
Enter Bottom.
BOT T OM
Where are these lads? Where are these hearts?
QUINCE
Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour! [25]
BOT T OM
Masters, I am to discourse wonders; but ask me not what; for if I tell you, I
am not true Athenian. I will tell you everything, right as it fell out.
QUINCE
Let us hear, sweet Bottom.
