Bottom (as Pyramus) Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams. I thank thee, moon, for shining now so bright; For by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams I trust to take of truest Thisbe sight. [Seeing Thisbe's bloody cloak on the ground] But stay! O spite! But mark, poor night, What dreadful dole is here? Eyes, do you see? How can it be? O dainty duck, O dear! Read more about Act 5, Scene 1: Popup Note Index Item: "ye Furies"
Bottom (as Pyramus) Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams. I thank thee, moon, for shining now so bright; For by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams I trust to take of truest Thisbe sight. [Seeing Thisbe's bloody cloak on the ground] But stay! O spite! But mark, poor night, What dreadful dole is here? Eyes, do you see? How can it be? O dainty duck, O dear! Read more about Act 5, Scene 1: Popup Note Index Item: Meter
Starveling (as Moonshine) This lantern doth the hornèd moon present, Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be — Theseus This is the greatest error of all the rest. The man should be put into the lantern. How is it else the "man i' the moon"? Demetrius He dares not come there for the candle; for you see it is already in snuff. Hippolyta I am aweary of this moon. Would he would change. Read more about Act 5, Scene 1: Popup Note Index Item: "Would he would change"
Theseus He is no crescent, and his horns are invisible within the circumference. Read more about Act 5, Scene 1: Popup Note Index Item: "no crescent"
Starveling (as Moonshine) This lantern doth the hornèd moon present — Demetrius He should have worn the horns on his head. Theseus He is no crescent, and his horns are invisible within the circumference. Read more about Act 5, Scene 1: Popup Note Index Item: “the horns on his head”
Snug (as Lion) You, ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor, May now perchance both quake and tremble here When lion, rough in wildest rage, doth roar. Then know that I, as Snug the joiner, am A lion fell, nor else no lion's dam; For if I should as Lion come in strife Into this place, 'twere pity on my life. Theseus A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. Demetrius The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw. Lysander This lion is a very fox for his valor. Theseus True, and a goose for his discretion. Demetrius Not so, my lord, for his valor cannot carry his discretion, and the fox carries the goose. Theseus His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valor, for the goose carries not the fox; it is well. Leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon. Read more about Act 5, Scene 1: Popup Note Index Item: "Leave it to his discretion"
Snug (as Lion) You, ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor, May now perchance both quake and tremble here When lion, rough in wildest rage, doth roar. Then know that I, as Snug the joiner, am A lion fell, nor else no lion's dam; For if I should as Lion come in strife Into this place, 'twere pity on my life. Theseus A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. Demetrius The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw. Lysander This lion is a very fox for his valor. Theseus True, and a goose for his discretion. Demetrius Not so, my lord, for his valor cannot carry his discretion, and the fox carries the goose. Theseus His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valor, for the goose carries not the fox; it is well. Leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon. Read more about Act 5, Scene 1: Popup Note Index Item: "goose carries not the fox"
Snug (as Lion) You, ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor, May now perchance both quake and tremble here When lion, rough in wildest rage, doth roar. Then know that I, as Snug the joiner, am A lion fell, nor else no lion's dam; For if I should as Lion come in strife Into this place, 'twere pity on my life. Theseus A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. Demetrius The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw. Lysander This lion is a very fox for his valor. Theseus True, and a goose for his discretion. Demetrius Not so, my lord, for his valor cannot carry his discretion, and the fox carries the goose. Theseus His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valor, for the goose carries not the fox; it is well. Leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon. Read more about Act 5, Scene 1: Popup Note Index Item: "the fox carries the goose"
Snug (as Lion) You, ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor, May now perchance both quake and tremble here When lion, rough in wildest rage, doth roar. Then know that I, as Snug the joiner, am A lion fell, nor else no lion's dam; For if I should as Lion come in strife Into this place, 'twere pity on my life. Theseus A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. Demetrius The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw. Lysander This lion is a very fox for his valor. Theseus True, and a goose for his discretion. Demetrius Not so, my lord, for his valor cannot carry his discretion, and the fox carries the goose. Theseus His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valor, for the goose carries not the fox; it is well. Leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon. Read more about Act 5, Scene 1: Popup Note Index Item: "a goose for his discretion"
Snug (as Lion) You, ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor, May now perchance both quake and tremble here When lion, rough in wildest rage, doth roar. Then know that I, as Snug the joiner, am A lion fell, nor else no lion's dam; For if I should as Lion come in strife Into this place, 'twere pity on my life. Theseus A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. Demetrius The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw. Lysander This lion is a very fox for his valor. Theseus True, and a goose for his discretion. Demetrius Not so, my lord, for his valor cannot carry his discretion, and the fox carries the goose. Theseus His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valor, for the goose carries not the fox; it is well. Leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon. Read more about Act 5, Scene 1: Popup Note Index Item: "This lion is a very fox"
