1    Have you sent to Bottom's house? is he come home yet?

2    He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is
3    transported.

4    If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes
5    not forward, doth it?

6    It is not possible: you have not a man in all
7    Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.

8    No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft
9    man in Athens.

10   Yea and the best person too; and he is a very
11   paramour for a sweet voice.

12   You must say 'paragon:' a paramour is, God bless us,
13   a thing of naught.

14   Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and
15   there is two or three lords and ladies more married:
16   if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made
17   men.

18   O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a
19   day during his life; he could not have 'scaped
20   sixpence a day: an the duke had not given him
21   sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged;
22   he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in
23   Pyramus, or nothing.

24   Where are these lads? where are these hearts?

25   Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!

26   Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not
27   what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I
28   will tell you every thing, right as it fell out.

29   Let us hear, sweet Bottom.

30   Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that
31   the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,
32   good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your
33   pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look
34   o'er his part; for the short and the long is, our
35   play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have
36   clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion
37   pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the
38   lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions
39   nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I
40   do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet
41   comedy. No more words: away! go, away!