_Bot._ [_Awaking_] When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer: my next is, ‘Most fair Pyramus.’ Heigh-ho! Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout, the tinker! Starveling! God’s my life, stolen hence, and left 200 me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have 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 patched 205 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 called Bottom’s 210 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._ ~~~~~ Linenotes: _A Midsummer-Night’s Dream_, IV, 1. ACT IV.] See note (VI). Enter...] Enter Queen of Fairies, and Clown, and Fairies, and the King behind them. Qq Ff. 7: _Mounsieur_] Qq Ff. _Monsieur_ Rowe. See note (VII). 10: _get you_] Q1. _get_ Q2 Ff. 18: _your_] _thy_ Pope. _neaf_] _neafe_ Qq F1. _newfe_ F2. _newse_ F3. _news_ F4. _Mustardseed_] Qq F1 F2. _Mustard_ F3 F4. 21: _Cavalery_] Qq F1. _Cavalero_ F2 F3 F4. 22: _Cobweb_] _Peas-blossom_ Grey conj. 23: _marvellous_] _marvailes_ Q1 _marvels_ Capell. See note (II). 24: _do_] _doth_ Rowe (ed. 2). 25: _some_] _some some_ Q2. 26: _Let’s_] Q1. _Let us_ Q2 Ff. 27: _tongs_] _tongues_ F2. Musick Tongs, Rural Musick. Ff. om. Q1. 32, 33: Printed in Q2 Ff as three lines ending _fairy...hoard...nuts._ 33: _hoard_] Q2 Ff. om. Q1. _thee_] _thee thence_ Hanmer. _thee the_ S. Walker conj. 38: _all ways_] Theobald. _alwaies_ Qq F1. _alwayes_ F2 F3. _always_ F4. _a while_ Hanmer. _all ways away_] _away—away_ Upton conj. _always i’ th’ way_ Heath conj. 39: Qq and Ff punctuate _woodbine,...honisuckle,...entwist;_ _woodbine_] _woodrine_ Upton conj. _weedbind_ Steevens conj. 40: _entwist; the female_] _entwist the maple;_ Warburton conj. 40, 41: _entwist;......Enrings_] _entwist,...Enring,_ Capell. 46: _favours_] Q1 F4. _savours_ Q2 F1 F2 F3. 52: _flowerets’_] _flouriets_ Qq Ff. 57: _fairy_] Qq Ff. _fairies_ Dyce. 62: _this_] _the_ Johnson. 63: _other_] _others_ Rowe. 68: _Be_] Qq. _Be thou_ Ff. 70: _o’er_] Theobald (Thirlby conj.). _or_ Qq Ff. 76: _do_] Q1 F2 F3 F4. _doth_ Q2 F1. _his_] Q1. _this_ Q2 Ff. 77: _this_] Qq. _his_ Ff. 79: _sleep of all these five_] Theobald (Thirlby conj.). _sleepe: of all these, fine_ Qq F1 F2. _sleep; of all these find_ F3 F4. _sleep. Of all these fine_ Rowe (ed. 2). 80: _ho!_] _howe_ Q1.