Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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SCENE III.
As they go out, Bottom wakes.
Bot.
When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.
My next is, Most fair Pyramus—hey,
ho,—Peter Quince, Flute the bellows-mender! Snout
the tinker! Starveling! god's my life! stoll'n hence,
and left me asleep? I have had a most rare vision. I
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 patch'd fool,4 note if he will offer
to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath
not heard, the ear of man hath not seen; man's hand
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is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his
heart to report what my dream was. I will get Peter
Quince to write a ballad of this dream; it shall be call'd
Bottom's Dream, because it hath no bottom; and I
will sing it in the latter end of a play before the Duke;
5 note
peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall
sing it after Death.
[Exit.
Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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