Star. He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt
he is transported.4
Flu. If he come not, then the play is marred:
it goes not forward, doth it?
Quin. It is not possible: you have not a man
in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but
he.9
Flu. No; he hath simply the best wit of any
handicraft man in Athens.
Quin. Yea, and the best person too; and he
is a very paramour for a sweet voice.13
Flu. 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 there is two or three lords and ladies
more married: if our sport had gone forward,
we had all been made men.19
Flu. 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 Pyramus,
I'll be hanged; he would have deserved it: six-
pence a day in Pyramus, or nothing.25
Enter Bottom.
Bot. Where are these lads? where are these
hearts?
Quin. Bottom! O most courageous day! O
most happy hour!29
Bot. Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but
ask me not what; for if I tell you, I am no true
4 transported: transformed (?)
15 a thing of naught: something wicked
27 hearts: good fellows
