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Quince, Bottom, Flute, and Puck, Lines 76-100
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Act 3,
Scene 1
Lines 76-100

A performance of lines 76-100 by Quince, Bottom, Flute, and Puck in Act 3, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

myShakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream 3.1 Performance: Quince et al Lines 76-100

Quince

Speak, Pyramus. Thisbe, stand forth.

Bottom (as Pyramus)

Thisbe, the flowers of odious savors sweet.

Quince

Odors, odorous!

Bottom (as Pyramus)

Odors savors sweet.
So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisbe dear.
But hark, a voice. Stay thou but here a while,
And by and by I will to thee appear.
[Exit Bottom behind the hedge]

Robin 

[Aside] A stranger Pyramus than e'er played here.
[Exit Robin following Bottom behind the hedge]

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.

Flute (as Thisbe)

Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,
Of color like the red rose on triumphant brier,
Most bristly juvenile, and eke most lovely jew,
As true as truest horse that yet would never tire.
I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb.

Quince

“Ninus' tomb,” man! Why, you must not speak
that yet; that, you answer to Pyramus. You speak all
your part at once, cues and all. — Pyramus, enter. Your
cue is past; it is “never tire.”

Flute

O!
[As Thisbe]
As true as truest horse that yet would never tire.
[Enter Robin and Bottom, whose head has been transformed by Robin into that of an ass. He recites his line as he comes around the hedge.]

Bottom (as Pyramus)

If I were fair, Thisbe, I were only thine.

Quince

O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted. Pray,
Masters, fly, masters. Help!