| first line | When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. My next is ‘Most fair Pyramus’. |
| When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. My next is ‘Most fair Pyramus’. | Heigh ho! Peter Quince? Flute the bellowsmender? Snout the tinker? Starveling? |
| Heigh ho! Peter Quince? Flute the bellowsmender? Snout the tinker? Starveling? | God’s my life! Stolen hence and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. |
| God’s my life! Stolen hence and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. | I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. |
| I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. | Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. |
| Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. | Methought I was – there is no man can tell what. Methought I was – and methought I had – |
| Methought I was – there is no man can tell what. Methought I was – and methought I had – | But man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. |
| Whole thing | When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. My next is ‘Most fair Pyramus’. Heigh ho! Peter Quince? Flute the bellowsmender? Snout the tinker? Starveling? God’s my life! Stolen hence and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was – there is no man can tell what. Methought I was – and methought I had – but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had. |
Midsummer Night’s Dream Excerpt (by Bottom)
July 1, 2019