1 It is the lady that Pyramus must love.
2 Therefore you must needs play Pyramus.
3 You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.
4 No, no, you must play Pyramus; and, Flute, you Thisbe.
5 You have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.
6 There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisbe that will never please.
7 I led them on in this distracted fear, And left sweet Pyramus translated there.
8 First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies cannot abide.
9 An the Duke had not given him sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged.
10 You, Pyramus' father; myself, Thisbe's father; Snug, the joiner, you, the lion's part.
11 Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your speech, enter into that brake; and so everyone according to his cue.
12 The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort Who Pyramus presented in their sport, Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake.
13 But there is two hard things: that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber, for you know, Pyramus and Thisbe meet by moonlight.
14 Then there is another thing: we must have a wall in the great chamber; for Pyramus and Thisbe, says the story, did talk through the chink of a wall.
15 You can play no part but Pyramus, for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man; a proper man as one shall see in a summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man.
16 And let him have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisbe whisper.
17 Write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to say we will do no harm with our swords, and that Pyramus is not killed indeed; and for the more better assurance, tell them that I Pyramus am not Pyramus but Bottom the weaver.
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