_Flu._ No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft man in Athens. 10 _Quin._ Yea, and the best person too; and he is a very paramour for a sweet voice. _Flu._ 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, 15 and there is two or three lords and ladies more married: if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made men. _Flu._ 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 20 day for playing Pyramus, I’ll be hanged; he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in Pyramus, or nothing. _Enter_ BOTTOM. _Bot._ Where are these lads? where are these hearts? _Quin._ Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour! 25 _Bot._ 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. _Quin._ Let us hear, sweet Bottom. _Bot._ Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, 30 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 35 plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out for the lion’s claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet comedy. No more words: away! go, away! [_Exeunt._ 40 ~~~~~ Linenotes: _A Midsummer-Night’s Dream_, IV, 2. SCENE II.] SCENE IV. Pope. 1: Enter...] Enter Quince, Flute, Thisby, and the rabble. Qq. Enter Quince, Flute, Thisby, Snout, and Starveling. Ff. 3: Star.] Ff. Flute. Qq. 5, 6: _goes not_] Qq F1 F2. _goes_ F3 F4. 11: Quin.] Snout. Halliwell conj. 13: Flu.] Quin. Anon. conj. 14: _naught_] F2 F3 F4. _nought_ Qq F1. 19: _scaped_] _scraped_ Grey conj. 27: _no_] Ff. _not_ Qq. 28: _right_] Qq. om. Ff. 30: _All that_] _all_ Rowe. 34: _preferred_] _proffered_ Theobald conj. 38, 39: _doubt but_] Qq F1 F2. _doubt_ F3 F4. 40: _go, away!_] _go away_ Qq Ff. ~~~~~ ACT V. SCENE I. _Athens. The palace of_ THESEUS. _Enter_ THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords, _and_ Attendants. _Hip._ ’Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of.