A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Snout’s Lines

Here, Peter Quince. Act 1 Scene 2. Quince: Robin Starveling, you must play Thisbe’s mother. Tom Snout, the tinker.
Every mother’s son. Act 1 Scene 2. Starveling: That would hang us.
By’r lakin, a parlous fear. Act 3 Scene 1. Bottom: — which the ladies cannot abide. How answer you that?
Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion? Act 3 Scene 1. Bottom: No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.
Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion. Act 3 Scene 1. Bottom: — wild-fowl than your lion living: and we ought to look to’t.
Doth the moon shine that night we play our play? Act 3 Scene 1. Quince: — Pyramus and Thisbe meet by moonlight.
You can never bring in a wall. What say you Bottom? Act 3 Scene 1. Quince: — Pyramus and Thisbe, says the story, did talk through a chink in the wall.
O Bottom, thou art changed! What do I see on thee? Act 3 Scene 1. Bottom: Why do they run away? This is a knavery of them to make me afeard.
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. Act 4 Scene 2. Quince: Yea, and the best person too; and he is very paramour for a sweet voice.
August 17, 2019