A Midsummer Night's Dream: ACT IV
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV SCENE I. The same. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HELENA, and HERMIA lying asleep. SCENE II. Athens. QUINCE'S house. ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE II. Athens. QUINCE'S house. Enter QUINCE, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING QUINCE       Have you sent to Bottom's house? is he come home yet? STARVELING       He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is       transported. FLUTE       If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes 5     not forward, doth it? QUINCE       It is not possible: you have not a man in all       Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he. FLUTE       No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft       man in Athens. QUINCE 10    Yea and the best person too; and he is a very       paramour for a sweet voice. FLUTE       You must say 'paragon:' a paramour is, God bless us,       a thing of naught. Enter SNUG 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. FLUTE       O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a       day during his life; he could not have 'scaped 20    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: sixpence a day in       Pyramus, or nothing. Enter BOTTOM BOTTOM       Where are these lads? where are these hearts? QUINCE 25    Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour! BOTTOM       Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not       what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I       will tell you every thing, right as it fell out. QUINCE       Let us hear, sweet Bottom. BOTTOM 30    Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that       the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,       good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your       pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look       o'er his part; for the short and the long is, our 35    play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have       clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion       pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the       lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions       nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I 40    do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet       comedy. No more words: away! go, away! Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene