SCENE I Blackout, Fairies enter (Lights up, Healing the Great Fairy ) BOTTOM When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' BOTTOM yawns and sleeps Healing the Great Fairy volume drops (when O and T run off stage) PUCK Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream Healing the Great Fairy ends Fairies repeat “dream” MECHANICALS enter BOTTOM wakes QUINCE Masters, here are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night; and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town by moonlight.
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SCENE I
Blackout, Fairies enter (Lights up, Healing the Great Fairy)
BOTTOM
When my cue comes, call me, and I will
answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.'
BOTTOM yawns and sleeps
Healing the Great Fairy volume drops (when O and T run off stage)
PUCK
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream
Healing the Great Fairy ends
Fairies repeat “dream”
MECHANICALS enter
BOTTOM wakes
QUINCE
Masters, here
are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request
you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night;
and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the
town by moonlight.
BOTTOM
Enough; hold or cut bow-strings.
Clap
BOTTOM is knocked out by fairies, they start to roll him away
SCENE III
Enter PUCK
PUCK
How now, spirit! whither wander you?
PEASEBLOSSOM
[they begin to fight]
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
COBWEB
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
MUSTARDSEED
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
PEASEBLOSSOM
I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
COBWEB
Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone:
Our queen and all our elves come here anon.
PUCK
The king doth keep his revels here to-night:
Take heed the queen come not within his sight;
For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,
And now they never meet in grove or green,
By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,
But, they do square, that all their elves for fear
Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there.
PEASEBLOSSOM
Either I mistake your shape and making quite,
COBWEB
Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite.
MUSTARDSEED
Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he?
PUCK
Thou speak'st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
And when she drinks, against her lips I bob
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.
The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,
Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;
Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,
And then the quire laugh, and neeze and swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there.
But, room, fairies! here comes Oberon.
(Final Hours, thunder only, end after 10-20 seconds)
(Cue: “merrier hour was never wasted there”)
MUSTARDSEED
And here my mistress. Would that he were gone!
Enter, from one side OBERON, from the other, TITANIA. ANIMAL MOVEMENT between OBERON and TITANIA.
OBERON
Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
TITANIA
What jealous Oberon! Fairies skip hence
I have forsworn his bed and company.
OBERON
Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?
TITANIA
Then I must be thy lady.
Why art thou here
Come from the farthest step of India?
OBERON
Why should Titania cross her Oberon?
I do but beg a little changeling boy
To be my henchman.
TITANIA
Set your heart at rest.
The fairy land buys not the child of me.
His mother was a votaress of my order
But she being mortal of that boy did die
And for her sake do I rear up her boy
And for her sake I will not part with him.
OBERON
How long within this wood intend you stay?
TITANIA
Perchance till after Theseus' wedding day.
If you will patiently dance in our round
And see our moonlight revels go with us.
If not shun me and I will spare your haunts.
OBERON
Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.
TITANIA
Not for thy fairy kingdom! Fairies away!
We shall chide downright if I longer stay.
Exit TITANIA
(Clockworks, Cue: “torment thee for this injury”)
OBERON
Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove
Till I torment thee for this injury.
My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest
Since once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music.
PUCK
I remember.
OBERON
That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,
Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took
At a fair vestal throned by the west,
And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,
As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;
But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,
And the imperial votaress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:
The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again
Ere the leviathan can swim a league.
PUCK
I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.
Exit
OBERON
OBERON knocks BOTTOM out
What fools these mortals be!
Having once this juice,
I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,
And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.
The next thing then she waking looks upon,
Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,
On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,
She shall pursue it with the soul of love.
OBERON exits
(Clockworks fades out)
SCENE IV
Enter TITANIA, with her train
TITANIA
Come now a roundel and a fairy song.
Sing me now asleep
Then to your offices and let me rest.
Fairies (sung)
You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,
Come not near our fairy queen.
Philomel, with melody
Sing in our sweet lullaby;
Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:
Never harm,
Nor spell nor charm,
Come our lovely lady nigh;
So, good night, with lullaby. *Titania sleeps*
Weaving spiders, come not here;
Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!
Beetles black, approach not near;
Worm nor snail, do no offence.
Philomel, with melody.
PEASEBLOSSOM:
Hence, away! now all is well.
Exeunt Fairies. TITANIA sleeps upstage center.
SCENE V
Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING
Snug
Are you sure that we are awake?
It seems to me that yet we sleep.
QUINCE
Is all our company here?
BOTTOM
You were best to call them generally, man by man,
according to the scrip.
QUINCE
Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is
thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our
interlude before the duke and the duchess, on his
wedding-day at night.
BOTTOM
First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats
on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow
to a point.
QUINCE
Marry, our play is, The most lamentable comedy, and
most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.
BOTTOM
A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a
merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your
actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves.
QUINCE
Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver.
BOTTOM
Ready. Name what part I am for, and proceed.
QUINCE
You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.
BOTTOM
What is Pyramus? a lover, or a tyrant?
QUINCE
A lover, that kills himself most gallant for love.
BOTTOM
That will ask some tears in the true performing of
it: if I do it, let the audience look to their
eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some
measure. To the rest: yet my chief humour is for a
tyrant: I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to
tear a cat in, to make all split.
The raging rocks
And shivering shocks
Shall break the locks
Of prison gates;
And Phibbus' car
Shall shine from far
And make and mar
The foolish Fates.
This was lofty! Now name the rest of the players.
QUINCE
Francis Flute, the bellows-mender.
FLUTE
Here, Peter Quince.
QUINCE
Flute, you must take Thisby on you.
FLUTE
What is Thisby? a wandering knight?
QUINCE
It is the lady that Pyramus must love.
FLUTE
Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.
QUINCE
That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and
you may speak as small as you will.
BOTTOM
An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I'll