The Wall Methinks Being Sensible Should Curse Again
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 5, Scene 1
Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, and
PHILOSTRATE, [Lords and Attendants].
HIPPOLYTA
one.that: that which, what.
ane'Tis strange my Theseus, that these lovers speak of.
THESEUS
2.may: can.
2More strange than truthful: I never may believe
3.antic: grotesque. fairy toys: trifling stories nearly fairy doings.
3These caper fables, nor these fairy toys.
4Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
5.shaping fantasies: fertile imaginations. apprehend: perceive, imagine. vi.comprehends: takes in, includes.
fiveSuch shaping fantasies, that apprehend
viMore than cool reason ever comprehends.
viiThe lunatic, the lover and the poet
8.compact: formed, composed.
8Are of imagination all compact:
9One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
10That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
xi.Helen: Helen of Troy, a paragon or beauty. in a forehead of Egypt: in a gypsy's face up.
elevenSees Helen's beauty in a forehead of Egypt:
12The poet'southward eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
xiiiDoth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
14And every bit imagination bodies along
xvThe forms of things unknown, the poet'due south pen
16Turns them to shapes and gives to blusterous nothing
17A local dwelling and a name.
18Such tricks hath strong imagination,
19.would but: merely wishes to.
19That if it would but apprehend some joy,
20.comprehends some bringer of that joy: has no trouble including or creating in his fantasy some source of the joy. 21.some fear: something to be feared.
20It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
21Or in the night, imagining some fear,
22How like shooting fish in a barrel is a bush supposed a bear!
HIPPOLYTA
23But all the story of the night told over,
24And all their minds transfigured so together,
25.More . . . images: the multitude of witness statements seem to testify to something more mere figments of the imagination (fancy). 26.grows to: arrives at. constancy: consistency, hence certainty. 27.howsoever: in any event. admirable: to be wondered at.
25More witnesseth than fancy'southward images
26And grows to something of dandy constancy;
27But, howsoever, strange and admirable.
THESEUS
28Here come up the lovers, full of joy and mirth.
Enter lovers, LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS,
HERMIA, and HELENA.
29Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love
xxxAccompany your hearts!
LYSANDER
30 More than to usa
31Wait in your majestic walks, your board, your bed!
THESEUS
32Come now; what masques, what dances shall we have,
33To wear away this long age of three hours
34.after-supper: lite repast post-obit supper.
34Between our later on-supper and bed-fourth dimension?
35Where is our usual manager of mirth?
36What revels are in hand? Is there no play,
37To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
38Call Philostrate.
PHILOSTRATE
38 Here, mighty Theseus.
THESEUS
39.abridgment: pastime (to abbreviate or shorten the evening).
39Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
40What masque? what music? How shall nosotros beguile
41The lazy time, if not with some delight?
PHILOSTRATE
42.cursory: short listing; abstruse. ripe: set up for presentation.
44.battle with the Centaurs: — One of the stories told about Theseus was a battle betwixt the Centaurs . . . more 47.glory of my kinsman: Ane version of the tradition placed Hercules at the boxing against the Centaurs. He and Theseus (according to Plutarch's The Life of Theseus) were kinsmen.
42There is a brief how many sports are ripe:
43Make selection of which your highness volition meet commencement.
[Giving a paper.]
THESEUS [Reads.]
44"The battle with the Centaurs, to be sung
45Past an Athenian eunuch to the harp."
46Nosotros'll none of that: that have I told my beloved,
47In glory of my kinsman Hercules.
[Reads.]
48-49. The anarchism . . . in their rage: Orpheus, the Thracian musician, was torn to pieces by Bacchanals at the acme of their orgiastic frenzy. 50.device: evidence.
52-53. The thrice . . . beggary: Possibly a topical innuendo to Spenser'south Tears of the Muses, 1591, . . . more 54.critical: biting. 55.Not sorting with: not appropriate to.
48"The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals,
49Tearing the Thracian vocalist in their rage."
50That is an old device; and it was play'd
51When I from Thebes came last a conqueror.
[Reads.]
52"The thrice three Muses mourning for the decease
53Of Learning, late deceased in beggary."
54That is some satire, keen and critical,
55Non sorting with a nuptial anniversary.
[Reads.]
56"A tedious cursory scene of young Pyramus
57And his love Thisby; very tragical mirth."
58Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!
59.foreign: perhaps an error, replacing some discussion (such every bit black), which, when combined with snow would produce an oxymoron with discord similar to hot ice.
59That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.
lxHow shall we discover the concord of this discord?
PHILOSTRATE
61A play there is, my lord, some 10 words long,
62Which is as brief as I accept known a play;
63But by 10 words, my lord, information technology is likewise long,
64Which makes it tedious; for in all the play
65.fitted: well cast.
65There is not one discussion apt, one player fitted:
66And tragical, my noble lord, it is;
67For Pyramus therein doth kill himself.
68Which, when I saw rehearsed, I must confess,
69Made mine optics water; but more merry tears
70The passion of loud laughter never shed.
THESEUS
71What are they that do play it?
PHILOSTRATE
72.Hard-handed men: men who piece of work with their hands.
72Difficult-handed men that piece of work in Athens hither,
73Which never labor'd in their minds till now,
74.toil'd: taxed. unbreathed memories: unexercised memory (unexercised encephalon unsaid). 75.against your nuptial: in preparation for your wedding.
74And now have toil'd their unbreathed memories
75With this same play, confronting your nuptial.
THESEUS
76And we will hear it.
PHILOSTRATE
76 No, my noble lord;
77It is non for you: I have heard information technology over,
78And it is nothing, nothing in the earth;
79.find sport in their intents: find entertainment in their intention. fourscore.Extremely stretch'd: strained to the uttermost. conn'd: memorized.
79Unless you lot can find sport in their intents,
80Extremely stretch'd and conn'd with cruel pain,
81To do you service.
THESEUS
81 I will hear that play;
82For never anything can exist awry,
83.simpleness: sincerity.
83When simpleness and duty tender it.
84Go, bring them in: and accept your places, ladies.
[Exit PHILOSTRATE.]
HIPPOLYTA
85.wretchedness o'er charged: feebleness or incompetence overburdened. 86.And duty in his service perishing: i.e., Hippolyta does not want to sentinel a homo trying, but failing in his service.
85I love not to see wretchedness o'er charged
86And duty in his service perishing.
THESEUS
87Why, gentle sweet, you shall encounter no such affair.
HIPPOLYTA
88.in this kind: of this sort.
88He says they can do nothing in this kind.
THESEUS
89The kinder we, to requite them thank you for nothing.
90Our sport shall be to take what they mistake:
91.noble respect: generous consideration.
91And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect
92.Takes information technology in might, not merit: judges the play in relation to the abilities of the performers, not the merit of the performance. 93.clerks: scholars.
92Takes it in might, not merit.
93Where I have come, great clerks take purposed
94To greet me with premeditated welcomes;
95Where I take seen them shiver and expect pale,
96Brand periods in the midst of sentences,
97.practic'd accent: i.e., rehearsed speech; or, usual way of speaking.
97Throttle their practic'd accent in their fears
98And in conclusion dumbly have broke off,
99Not paying me a welcome. Trust me, sweet,
100Out of this silence all the same I option'd a welcome;
101.fearful: timorous, frightened.
101And in the modesty of fearful duty
102I read every bit much equally from the rattling tongue
103Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
104-105.Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity / In least speak most, to my chapters.: i.e., Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity, though valued least, speak nigh to my judgment.
104Love, therefore, and natural language-tied simplicity
105In least speak well-nigh, to my capacity.
[Enter PHILOSTRATE.]
PHILOSTRATE
106.the Prologue is accost'd: i.eastward., the speaker of the prologue is gear up.
106And so please your grace, the Prologue is address'd.
THESEUS
107Let him approach.
[Flourish of trumpets.]
Enter [QUINCE for] the Prologue.
Prologue
108If nosotros offend, it is with our good will.
109That you should recall, we come up non to offend,
110But with good will. To testify our simple skill,
111That is the truthful start of our end.
112.despite: sick will, defiance of your wishes.
112Consider then we come but in despite.
113.minding: intending.
113We exercise not come as minding to content you lot,
114Our true intent is. All for your delight
115We are not here. That y'all should here repent yous,
116The actors are at hand; and by their evidence,
117You shall know all that you are similar to know.
THESEUS
118.stand up upon points: (1) bother almost trifles; (two) listen his punctuation. —The humor of Quince's spoken language is in the way he stops where he should start and vice-versa, as though his script were total of errors in punctuation. 119.rough: unbroken. 120.stop: (one) reining in a equus caballus to a quick halt; (2) period. 121.true: (1) the truth; (ii) correctly.
118This beau doth non stand upon points.
LYSANDER
119He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows
120not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not
121plenty to speak, but to speak true.
HIPPOLYTA
122Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child
123.recorder: wind instrument resembling a flute or flageolet. 123-124.in / government: in control, managed.
123on a recorder— a audio, just not in
124regime.
THESEUS
125-126. nothing / impair'd: i.e., notwithstanding unbroken (nix means "in no respect, not at all").
125His oral communication, was like a tangled concatenation; nothing
126impair'd, but all disordered. Who is adjacent?
Enter PYRAMUS and THISBY and WALL
and MOONSHINE and LION.
Prologue
127Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show;
128But wonder on, till truth brand all things plain.
129This human is Pyramus, if y'all would know;
130This beauteous lady Thisby is sure.
131This man, with lime and rough-bandage, doth present
132Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder;
133And through Wall'southward chink, poor souls, they are content
134To whisper. At the which permit no human being wonder.
135This human being, with lanthorn, canis familiaris, and bush-league of thorn,
136Presenteth Moonshine; for, if you will know,
137.think no scorn: retrieve (it) no disgrace.
137By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn
138To run across at Ninus' tomb, at that place, there to woo.
139.hight: is called.
139This grisly animal, which Lion hight by name,
140The trusty Thisby, coming commencement past nighttime,
141Did scare away, or rather did affright;
142.her mantle she did fall: she let her sleeveless cloak fall.
142And, as she fled, her drapery she did fall,
143Which King of beasts vile with bloody rima oris did stain.
144.tall: brave.
144Anon comes Pyramus, sweetness youth and alpine,
145.Thisby's drapery slain: Thisby'due south bloody cloak.
145And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain:
146Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
147.broach'd: stabbed.
147He bravely broach'd his boiling bloody breast;
148And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade,
149His dagger drew, and died. For all the rest,
150Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain
151.At large: in full, at length.
151At large discourse, while here they do remain.
Exit [with Pyramus,] Thisby, Lion, and Moonshine.
THESEUS
152I wonder if the lion be to speak.
DEMETRIUS
153.No wonder: it volition exist no wonder if he does.
153No wonder, my lord: one lion may, when many
154asses practice.
Wall
155In this same interlude it doth befall
156That I, 1 Snout by name, present a wall;
157And such a wall, every bit I would have you retrieve,
158That had in it a crannied pigsty or chink,
159Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby,
160Did whisper ofttimes very secretly.
161This loam, this rough-bandage and this rock doth bear witness
162That I am that same wall; the truth is and so:
163.right and sinister: running right and left, i.e., horizontal.
163And this the cranny is, right and sinister,
164Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.
THESEUS
165Would yous desire lime and hair to speak
166better?
DEMETRIUS
167.wittiest: cleverest. division: (i) wall (two) section of a learned treatise or oration.
167It is the wittiest sectionalisation that always I heard
168discourse, my lord.
[Enter PYRAMUS.]
THESEUS
169Pyramus draws nearly the wall: silence!
Pyramus
170.grim-expect'd: grim-looking.
170O grim-await'd dark! O dark with hue so black!
171O nighttime, which ever art when day is not!
172O nighttime, O night! alack, alack, alack,
173I fear my Thisby'south promise is forgot!
174And g, O wall, O sugariness, O lovely wall,
175That stand'st betwixt her begetter's ground and mine!
176Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,
177Show me thy chink, to glimmer through with mine eyne!
[Wall holds up his fingers.]
178Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!
179Just what see I? No Thisby exercise I meet.
180O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss!
181Cursed exist thy stones for thus deceiving me!
THESEUS
182.sensible: capable of feeling.
182The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse
183.again: in return.
183again.
Pyramus
184No, in truth, sir, he should not. 'Deceiving me'
185is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now, and I am to
186spy her through the wall. You shall see, it will
187.autumn pat: happen exactly.
 |
| Flute/Thisby Snout/Wall and Bottom/Pyramus |
187fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes.
Enter THISBY.
THISBY
188O wall, total frequently hast g heard my moans,
189For parting my fair Pyramus and me!
190My cherry lips have often osculation'd thy stones,
191Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.
Pyramus
192I see a vocalisation: now will I to the chink,
193.an: if.
193To spy an I tin hear my Thisby's face.
194Thisby!
THISBY
194.My love thou art, my dear I remember: The QI punctuation is hither retained, although it "doth non stand upon points. 5.1.118"
194 My love grand art, my beloved I think.
Pyramus
195.lover's grace: i.east., gracious lover.
195Recollect what thou wilt, I am thy lover's grace;
196. Limander: blunder for "Leander," who drowned while swimming across the Hellespont (now chosen the Dardanelles) to visit his lover Hero.
196And, like Limander, am I trusty notwithstanding.
THISBY
197. Helen: blunder for "Hero."
197And I like Helen, till the Fates me kill.
Pyramus
198.Shafalus, Procrus: blunders for "Cephalus" and "Procris," likewise famous lovers.
198Not Shafalus to Procrus was and then truthful.
THISBY
199As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you.
Pyramus
200.vild: vile.
200O kiss me through the hole of this vild wall!
THISBY
201I kiss the wall'southward hole, not your lips at all.
Pyramus
202Wilt thou at Ninny'southward tomb see me straightway?
THISBY
203.'Tide: betide, come up.
203'Tide life, 'tide decease, I come without delay.
[Exeunt Pyramus and Thisby.]
Wall
204Thus have I, Wall, my function discharged so;
205And, existence done, thus Wall away doth go.
[Exit.]
THESEUS
206.Now is the moon used betwixt the two neighbours: i.e., now that the wall is down, the ii lovers volition see each other by the light of Moonshine.
206Now is the moon used between the two
207neighbours.
DEMETRIUS
208-209. when walls are and then / willful to hear: when walls are and so willful (deed in a cocky-willed style) as to hear or so perverse every bit to hear without alarm: secretly or wilfully informing the parents—with humorous allusion to the saying "Walls take ears" (certainly true of Snout!).
208No remedy, my lord, when walls are so
209willful to hear without warning.
HIPPOLYTA
210This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.
THESEUS
211.in this kind: of this profession, i.e., actors. shadows: mere likenesses or representations, without substance.
211The best in this kind are but shadows; and the
212worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
HIPPOLYTA
213It must exist your imagination then, and not
214theirs.
THESEUS
215-216.If we imagine no worse of them than they of / themselves, they may pass for first-class men: Clever comment on the character of actors, Shakespeare'due south "co-workers."
215If we imagine no worse of them than they of
216themselves, they may pass for fantabulous men.
217Here come two noble beasts in, a man and a
218lion.
Enter LION and MOONSHINE.
Lion
219Yous, ladies, you, whose gentle hearts practise fear
220The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on flooring,
221May now perchance both quake and tremble here,
222When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.
223Then know that I, 1 Snug the joiner, am
224.lion fell: cruel panthera leo. nor else no lion's dam: —Snug means to reassure everyone that he's not really a king of beasts, gets his words mixed up and says he is not really the female parent ( dam ) of a panthera leo.
224A lion fell, nor else no panthera leo's dam;
225For, if I should as panthera leo come up in strife
226Into this identify, 'twere pity on my life.
THESEUS
227.gentle: polite.
227A very gentle beast, of a good con-
228scientific discipline.
DEMETRIUS
229The very all-time at a beast, my lord, that
230always I saw.
LYSANDER
231.very fox for his valour: i.e., more than crafty than courageous.
231This lion is a very fob for his valour.
THESEUS
232.goose for his discretion: equally unimposing every bit the honking of a goose, i.e., more foolish than crafty.
232True; and a goose for his discretion.
DEMETRIUS
233Non so, my lord; for his valour cannot deport
234his discretion; and the play a joke on carries the goose.
THESEUS
235His discretion, I am sure, cannot bear his
236valour; for the goose carries not the fox. It
237is well: leave it to his discretion, and allow us
238listen to the Moon.
Moonshine
239.lanthorn: a variant of "lantern," pronounced "lant-horn," influenced by the fact that old-fashioned lanterns had sides of transparent horn.
239This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;—
DEMETRIUS
240-241. on his head: i.e., as a sign of cuckoldry (having an adulterous wife) and foolishness.
240He should take worn the horns on his
241head.
THESEUS
242He is no crescent, and his horns are
243invisible within the circumference.
Moonshine
244.horned moon: cresent moon.
244This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;
245Myself the human being i' the moon practice seem to exist.
THESEUS
246This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man
247should exist put into the lanthorn. How is it else the
248homo i' the moon?
DEMETRIUS
249.for the candle: on account of the candle.
249He dares not come there for the candle; for, you lot
250.in snuff: (1) offended; (2) in need of snuffing.
250encounter, information technology is already in snuff.
HIPPOLYTA
251I am aweary of this moon: would he would
252change!
THESEUS
253It appears, by his small light of discretion, that
254he is in the wane; but yet, in courtesy, in all
255.stay: expect for.
255reason, we must stay the time.
LYSANDER
256Proceed, Moon.
Moonshine
257All that I accept to say, is, to tell y'all that the
258lanthorn is the moon; I, the human in the moon; this
259thorn-bush-league, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.
DEMETRIUS
260Why, all these should be in the lanthorn; for all
261these are in the moon. Simply, silence! here comes
262Thisby.
Enter THISBY.
THISBY
263This is erstwhile Ninny's tomb. Where is my love?
Lion [Roaring.]
264O!
[Thisby runs off.]
DEMETRIUS
265Well roared, Lion.
THESEUS
266Well run, Thisby.
HIPPOLYTA
267Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a
268good grace.
[The Panthera leo shakes THISBY'southward drapery, and get out.]
THESEUS
269.mous'd: shaken, torn (like a mouse in the jaws of a cat).
269Well mous'd, Lion.
DEMETRIUS
270And and then came Pyramus.
LYSANDER
271And so the panthera leo vanished.
Enter PYRAMUS.
Pyramus
272Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams;
273I give thanks thee, Moon, for shining now so bright;
274For, by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams,
275I trust to have of truest Thisby sight.
276.spite: malicious stroke of fortune.
276 But stay, O spite!
277 Only marker, poor knight,
278.dole: grievous sight.
278 What dreadful dole is here!
279 Eyes, do you lot see?
280 How can information technology be?
281 O nice duck! O dearest!
282 Thy mantle practiced,
283 What, stain'd with claret!
284 Approach, ye Furies roughshod!
285 O Fates, come, come,
286.thread and thrum: warp in weaving and the loose ends of the warp; hither, the complete thread (of life). 287.Quail: overpower. conclude: bring to an stop. quell: kill, destroy.
286 Cutting thread and thrum;
287 Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!
THESEUS
288-289. passion: violent expression of sorrow. This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would get well-nigh to make a human look deplorable: i.due east., if one had other reason to grieve, i might be sad, simply not from this cool portrayal of passion.
288This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would
289go nigh to make a human being wait deplorable.
HIPPOLYTA
290Beshrew my middle, but I compassion the man.
Pyramus
291O wherefore, Nature, didst thou lions frame?
292Since lion vile hath here deflower'd my dear:
293Which is—no, no—which was the fairest dame
294.cheer: Almost certainly the meaning here is "countenance." 295.confound: destroy (me).
294That lived, that loved, that liked, that look'd with cheer.
295 Come, tears, confound;
296 Out, sword, and wound
297.pap: breast.
297 The pap of Pyramus;
298 Ay, that left pap,
299 Where heart doth hop:
[Stabs himself.]
300 Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.
301 Now am I dead,
302 At present am I fled;
303 My soul is in the sky:
304-305.Natural language, lose thy light; / Moon take thy flight: Pyramus means to say, "Moon, lose thy light; Natural language accept thy flying." "Natural language, take your flying" would hateful "exist fabricated silent (by death)."
304 Tongue, lose thy lite;
305 Moon take thy flight:
[Go out Moonshine.]
306 Now die, die, die, die, die.
[Dies.]
DEMETRIUS
307.No die but an ace: non a whole die simply a unmarried face—the i-spot. one: (I) a unmarried person; (two) in a class by himself.
307No die, but an ace, for him; for he is only i.
LYSANDER
308Less than an ace, man; for he is dead; he is
309nada.
THESEUS
310With the assist of a surgeon he might yet recover,
311.ass: With pun on ace.
311and testify an ass.
HIPPOLYTA
312How chance Moonshine is gone earlier Thisby comes
313back and finds her lover?
THESEUS
314She volition find him by starlight. Here she comes; and
315.passion: passionate speech.
315her passion ends the play.
[Enter THISBY.]
HIPPOLYTA
316Methinks she should not use a long one for
317such a Pyramus: I hope she will be brief.
DEMETRIUS
318-319. which ... which: whether ... or.
318A mote volition turn the balance, which Pyramus,
319which Thisby, is the better; he for a man, God
320.God warrant the states . . . God bless united states: —Both phrases meant "God salvage us from."
320warrant united states of america; she for a adult female, God bless us.
LYSANDER
321She hath spied him already with those sweet
322eyes.
DEMETRIUS
323.means: moans, laments. videlicet: as follows, to wit.
323And thus she means, videlicet—
THISBY
324 Asleep, my love?
325 What, dead, my dove?
326 O Pyramus, arise!
327 Speak, speak. Quite dumb?
328 Expressionless, dead? A tomb
329 Must cover thy sugariness optics.
330 These My lips,
331 This cherry nose,
332 These xanthous cowslip cheeks,
333 Are gone, are gone:
334 Lovers, make moan:
335 His eyes were green as leeks.
336.Sisters Iii: the Fates.
336 O Sisters Iii,
337 Come, come to me,
338 With easily as stake equally milk;
339 Lay them in gore,
340.shore: shorn.
340 Since you have shore
341 With shears his thread of silk.
342 Natural language, not a discussion:
343 Come up, trusty sword;
344.imbrue: stain with blood.
344 Come, blade, my breast imbrue:
[Stabs herself.]
345 And, farewell, friends;
346 Thus Thisby ends:
347 Bye, adieu, farewell.
[Dies.]
THESEUS
348Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the
349dead.
DEMETRIUS
350Ay, and Wall too.
Bottom [Starting up.]
351 No, I assure you; the wall is down that
352parted their fathers. Will it please yous to
353-354. Bergomask dance: a rustic dance named from Bergamo, a province in the state of Venice.
353run across the epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask
354trip the light fantastic betwixt ii of our company?
THESEUS
355-356.no / excuse: no extenuation of faults.
355No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no
356excuse. Never alibi; for when the players are all
357dead, in that location needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he
358that writ it had played Pyramus and hanged himself
359in Thisby'south garter, it would accept been a fine
360tragedy: and so it is, truly; and very notably
361discharged. Merely come, your Bergomask: let your
362epilogue alone.
[A dance.]
363.told: counted, struck ("tolled").
363The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:
364Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy fourth dimension.
365I fearfulness we shall out-slumber the coming forenoon
366.overwatch'd: stayed upwardly too tardily.
366As much every bit we this dark have overwatch'd.
367.palpable-gross: palpably gross; plain crude or dull. 368.heavy: drowsy, torpid, dull.
367This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled
368The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed.
369A fortnight hold we this solemnity,
370In nightly revels and new jollity.
Exeunt.
Enter PUCK.
PUCK
371 At present the hungry panthera leo roars,
372 And the wolf behowls the moon;
373 Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,
374.foredone: exhausted.
374 All with weary task fordone.
375.wasted brands do glow: logs take burned down into glowing embers.
375 Now the wasted brands do glow,
376 Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,
377 Puts the wretch that lies in woe
378 In remembrance of a shroud.
379 At present it is the time of night
380 That the graves all gaping wide,
381.Every one lets his sprite: every grave lets along its ghost.
381 Every one lets forth his sprite,
382 In the church building-way paths to glide:
383 And we fairies, that do run
384.triple Hecate's team: Hecate ruled in three capacities: as Luna (or Cynthia) in heaven, as Diana on earth, and every bit Proserpina in hell. Hither she is the queen of night, drawn past her team of dragons (cf. 3.2.379). 387.frolic: merry.
384 By the triple Hecate'southward team,
385 From the presence of the sun,
386 Post-obit darkness like a dream,
387 Now are frolic: not a mouse
388 Shall disturb this hallow'd house:
389 I am sent with broom before,
390.behind: i.e., from behind. In folklore, Robin Goodfellow was a household spirit who helped good housemaids and punished lazy ones, and was thus sent to clean the house in grooming for the coming of the fairy male monarch and queen.
390 To sweep the dust behind the door.
Enter the King and Queen of Fairies
[OBERON and TITANIA] with all their train.
OBERON
391 Through the firm give glimmering light
392 By the expressionless and drowsy fire:
393 Every elf and fairy sprite
394 Hop as light equally bird from brier;
395 And this ditty, after me,
396 Sing, and trip the light fantastic it trippingly.
TITANIA
397 Commencement, rehearse your song by rote
398 To each word a warbling note:
399 Manus in mitt, with fairy grace,
400 Volition we sing, and bless this identify.
[Vocal and dance.]
OBERON
401 Now, until the break of day,
402 Through this firm each fairy stray.
403 To the best bride-bed will we,
404 Which by u.s.a. shall blessed be;
405.create: created.
405 And the issue in that location create
406 Ever shall be fortunate.
407 So shall all the couples three
408 Ever true in loving exist;
409 And the blots of Nature's hand
410 Shall non in their issue stand up;
411 Never mole, hare lip, nor scar,
412.biggy: ominous birthmark.
412 Nor mark prodigious, such every bit are
413 Despised in nascence,
414 Shall upon their children exist.
415.consecrate: consecrated.
415 With this field-dew consecrate,
416.take his gait: go his way.
416 Every fairy have his gait;
417.several: separate.
417 And each several chamber bless,
418 Through this palace, with sweetness peace;
419 And the owner of information technology blest
420 Always shall in safety remainder.
421 Trip abroad; brand no stay;
422 Meet me all by interruption of day.
Exeunt [OBERON, TITANIA, and train].
PUCK
423 If we shadows have offended,
424 Remember but this, and all is mended,
425.That you have but slumber'd here: i.due east., that it is but a "midsummer night's dream."
425 That you have merely slumber'd here
426 While these visions did appear.
427 And this weak and idle theme,
428.No more yielding but a dream: yielding nothing more than than a dream. Gentles: well-born people. practise not reprehend: practise not rebuke. 430.mend: practice meliorate the adjacent fourth dimension
428 No more yielding simply a dream,
429 Gentles, do non reprehend:
430 if yous pardon, we will mend:
431 And, as I am an honest Puck,
432 If we have unearned luck
433.serpent's tongue: hissing.
433 Now to 'scape the serpent's natural language,
434 We will make amends ere long;
435 Else the Puck a liar call;
436 So, good nighttime unto you all.
437.Give me your hands: applaud.
437 Requite me your hands, if we be friends,
438.restore apology: make amends in the hereafter.
438 And Robin shall restore amends.
[Exit.]
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