QUINCE	Have you sent to Bottom's house? is he come home yet?
STARVELING	He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is
	transported.
FLUTE	If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes
	not forward, doth it?
QUINCE	It is not possible: you have not a man in all
	Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.
FLUTE	No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft
	man in Athens.	10
QUINCE	Yea and the best person too; and he is a very
	paramour for a sweet voice.
FLUTE	You must say 'paragon:' a paramour is, God bless us,
	a thing of naught.
	Enter SNUG
SNUG	Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and
	there is two or three lords and ladies more married:
	if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made
	men.
FLUTE	O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a
	day during his life; he could not have 'scaped
	sixpence a day: an the duke had not given him
	sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged;
	he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in
	Pyramus, or nothing.
	Enter BOTTOM
BOTTOM	Where are these lads? where are these hearts?
QUINCE	Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!
BOTTOM	Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not
	what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I
	will tell you every thing, right as it fell out.
QUINCE	Let us hear, sweet Bottom.	29
BOTTOM	Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that
	the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,
	good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your
	pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look
	o'er his part; for the short and the long is, our
	play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have
	clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion
	pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the
	lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions