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A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM
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Thisbe.

And I like Helen, till the Fates me kill.

Pyramus.

Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true.

Thisbe.

As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you.

Pyramus.

O, kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!

Thisbe.

I kiss the wall’s hole, not your lips at all.

Pyramus.

Wilt thou at Ninny’s tomb meet me straightway?

Thisbe.

’Tide life, ’tide death, I come without delay.
[Exeunt Pyramus and Thisbe.

Wall.

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth go. [Exit.

Theseus.

Now is the mural down between the two neighbours.