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PY RAMUS
Wilt thou at Ninny’s tomb meet me straightway? [200]
T HISBE
’Tide life, ’tide death, I come without delay.
Exeunt Pyramus and Thisbe (severally).
WALL
Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
Exit.
T HESEUS
Now is the mure rased between the two neighbours. [205]
DEMET RIUS
No remedy my lord, when walls are so wilful to hear without warning.
HIPPOLY T A
This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.
T HESEUS
The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if
imagination amend them. [210]
HIPPOLY T A
It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.
T HESEUS
If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves, they may pass
for excellent men. Here come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion. [215]
Enter Lion and Moonshine.
LION
You ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear
The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,
May now, perchance, both quake and tremble here,
When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.
Then know that I as Snug the joiner am [220]
