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A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM
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Quince.

Well, it shall be so. But there is two hard things; that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber; for, you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight.

Snout.

Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?

Bottom.

A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanac; find out moonshine, find out moonshine.

Quince.

Yes, it doth shine that night.

Bottom.

Why, then may you leave a casement of the great chamber-window, where we play, open, and the moon may shine in at the casement.

Quince.

Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to present, the person of Moonshine. Then, there is another thing: we must have a wall in the great chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby, says the story, did talk through the chink of a wall.