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1

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Bottom

865

A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanac; find
out moonshine, find out moonshine.

2

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Quince

871

Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns
and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to
present, the person of Moonshine. Then, there is
another thing: we must have a wall in the great
chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby says the story, did
talk through the chink of a wall.

3

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

(stage directions)

1969

[Enter Pyramus and Thisbe, Wall, Moonshine, and Lion]

4

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Quince

1970

Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show;
But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.
This man is Pyramus, if you would know;
This beauteous lady Thisby is certain.
This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present
Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder;
And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content
To whisper. At the which let no man wonder.
This man, with lanthorn, dog, and bush of thorn,
Presenteth Moonshine; for, if you will know,
By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn
To meet at Ninus' tomb, there, there to woo.
This grisly beast, which Lion hight by name,
The trusty Thisby, coming first by night,
Did scare away, or rather did affright;
And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall,
Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,
And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain:
Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
He bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast;
And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade,
His dagger drew, and died. For all the rest,
Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain
At large discourse, while here they do remain.

5

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

(stage directions)

1995

[Exeunt Prologue, Thisbe, Lion, and Moonshine]

6

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

(stage directions)

2062

[Enter Lion and Moonshine]

7

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Starveling

2080

[as Moonshine] This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;—

8

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Starveling

2084

[as Moonshine] This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;
Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be.

9

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Starveling

2096

[as Moonshine] All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the
lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this
thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.

10

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Bottom

2133

O wherefore, Nature, didst thou lions frame?
Since lion vile hath here deflower'd my dear:
Which is—no, no—which was the fairest dame
That lived, that loved, that liked, that look'd
with cheer.
Come, tears, confound;
Out, sword, and wound
The pap of Pyramus;
Ay, that left pap,
Where heart doth hop:
[Stabs himself]
Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.
Now am I dead,
Now am I fled;
My soul is in the sky:
Tongue, lose thy light;
Moon take thy flight:
[Exit Moonshine]
Now die, die, die, die, die.

11

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Hippolyta

2157

How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes
back and finds her lover?

12

Midsummer Night's Dream
[V, 1]

Theseus

2195

Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead.