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A Midsummer

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