A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act IV, Scene i; First Folio
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act 4, Scene 1. Bottom
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1728 When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.
1730 Flute the bellowes-mender? Snout the tinker? Starue–
1732 haue had a most rare vision. I had a dreame, past the wit
1733 of man, to say, what dreame it was. Man is but an Asse,
1735 was, there is no man can tell what. Me-thought I was,
1736 and me-thought I had. But man is but a patch’d foole,
1737 if he will offer to say, what me-thought I had. The eye of
1738 man hath not heard, the eare of man hath not seen, mans
1739 hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceiue, nor his
1740 heart to report, what my dreame was. I will get Peter
1741 Quince to write a ballet of this dreame, it shall be called
1742 Bottomes Dreame, because it hath no bottome; and I will
1743 sing it in the latter end of a play, before the Duke. Per–
1744 aduenture, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it
1745 at her death.
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