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A Midsummer

Enter Pyramus.

Pyr. O grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black!172
 O night, which ever art when day is not!
O night! O night! alack, alack, alack!
 I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot.
And thou, O wall! O sweet, O lovely wall!176
 That stand'st between her father's ground and mine;
Thou wall, O wall! O sweet, and lovely wall!
 Show me thy chink to blink through with mine eyne.

[Wall holds up his fingers.]

Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!180
 But what see I? No Thisby do I see.
O wicked wall! through whom I see no bliss;
 Curs'd be thy stones for thus deceiving me!

The. The wall, methinks, being sensible,
should curse again.185

Pyr. No, in truth, sir, he should not. 'De-
ceiving me,' is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now,
and I am to spy her through the wall. You
shall see, it will fall pat as I told you. Yonder
she comes.

Enter Thisbe.

This. O wall! full often hast thou heard my moans,
 For parting my fair Pyramus and me:192
My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones,
 Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.

Pyr. I see a voice: now will I to the chink,
 To spy an I can hear my Thisby's face.196
Thisby!

184 sensible: capable of perception
189 fall: happen