George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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SCENE III.
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!
stol'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, 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 at her death.
[Exit.
George Sewell [1723–5], The works of Shakespear in six [seven] volumes. Collated and Corrected by the former Editions, By Mr. Pope ([Vol. 7] Printed by J. Darby, for A. Bettesworth [and] F. Fayram [etc.], London) [word count] [S11101].
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