Authors: John McCann,Monica Sweeney,Becky Thomas
BOTTOM [as Pyramus]
Think what thou wilt, I am thy lover’s grace;
And, like Limander, am I trusty still.
FLUTE [as thisby]
And I like Helen, till the Fates me kill.
BOTTOM [as Pyramus]
Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true.
FLUTE [as thisby]
As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you.
BOTTOM [as Pyramus]
O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!
FLUTE [as thisby]
I kiss the wall’s hole, not your lips at all.
BOTTOM [as Pyramus]
Wilt thou at Ninny’s tomb meet me straightway?
FLUTE [as thisby]
’Tide life, ’tide death, I come without delay.
SNOUT [as Wall ]
Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
ACT V. Scene I (251–335).
FLUTE [as thisby]
This is old Ninny’s tomb.
FLUTE [as thisby] (cont.)
Where is my love?
SNUG [as Lion]
Oh—
DEMETRIUS
Well roared, Lion.
THESEUS
Well run, thisby.