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"the lion's part"
Wordplay
Act 1,
Scene 2
Lines 57-58

An explanation of Quince’s wordplay in “the lion’s part” in Act 1, Scene 2 of myShakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Quince

Snug the joiner, you the lion's part. And I hope here is a
play fitted.

Quince hopes that Snug, a joiner who fits together the parts of cabinets, will fit the part of the lion.

(Snug as Lion by Louis Rhead for Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare.)

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snug_as_Lion_-_Louis_Rhead_(before_1918).jpg