Brick Shakespeare: The Comedies—A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Taming of the Shrew (22 page)

BOOK: Brick Shakespeare: The Comedies—A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Taming of the Shrew
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BOTTOM [as Pyramus]

Think what thou wilt, I am thy lover’s grace;

And, like Limander, am I trusty still.

FLUTE [as thisby]

And I like Helen, till the Fates me kill.

BOTTOM [as Pyramus]

Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true.

FLUTE [as thisby]

As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you.

BOTTOM [as Pyramus]

O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!

FLUTE [as thisby]

I kiss the wall’s hole, not your lips at all.

BOTTOM [as Pyramus]

Wilt thou at Ninny’s tomb meet me straightway?

FLUTE [as thisby]

’Tide life, ’tide death, I come without delay.

SNOUT [as Wall ]

Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;

And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.

ACT V. Scene I (251–335).

FLUTE [as thisby]

This is old Ninny’s tomb.

FLUTE [as thisby] (cont.)

Where is my love?

SNUG [as Lion]

Oh—

DEMETRIUS

Well roared, Lion.

THESEUS

Well run, thisby.

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