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"to see a noise"
Humor
Act 3,
Scene 1
Lines 84-86

An explanation of the humor in the phrase “to see a noise” in Act 3, Scene 1 of myShakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Flute

Must I speak now?

Quince

Ay, marry, must you. For you must understand he goes
but to see a noise that he heard, and is to come again.

“To see a noise that he heard”? – for a playwright, Quince is not particularly articulate!