Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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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:
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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, 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 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;
peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall
sing it (a) note after Death.
[Exit.
Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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