{"id":8631,"date":"2023-01-28T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T00:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=8631"},"modified":"2023-01-28T19:16:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T00:16:26","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-act-i-scene-i-12","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=8631","title":{"rendered":"A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream: Act IV, Scene i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 4, Scene 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bottom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(This text is featured in our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=8625\">interview with Ian Gould<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Click here to open up a <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=8636\">First Folio Version<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">210\u00a0 When my cue comes, call me,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">211\u00a0 and I will answer. My next is \u201cMost fair Pyramus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">212\u00a0 Hey-ho! Peter Quince! Flute the bellows-mender!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">213\u00a0 Snout the tinker! Starveling! God\u2019s my life! Stolen<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">214\u00a0 hence and left me asleep! I have had a most rare<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">215\u00a0 vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">216\u00a0 what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">217\u00a0 to expound this dream. Methought I was\u2014there<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">218\u00a0 is no man can tell what. Methought I was and<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">219\u00a0 methought I had\u2014but man is but a patched fool if<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">220\u00a0 he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">221\u00a0 man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">222\u00a0 man\u2019s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">223\u00a0 conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">224\u00a0 was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">225\u00a0 dream. It shall be called \u201cBottom\u2019s Dream\u201d because<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">226\u00a0 it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">227\u00a0 latter end of a play, before the Duke. Peradventure,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">228\u00a0 to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 4, Scene 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bottom (This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Ian Gould) Click here to open up a First Folio Version 210\u00a0 When my cue comes, call me,\u00a0 211\u00a0 and I will answer. My next is \u201cMost fair Pyramus.\u201d 212\u00a0 Hey-ho! Peter Quince! Flute the bellows-mender! 213\u00a0 Snout the tinker!<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=8631' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-2fd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8642,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8631\/revisions\/8642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}