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... Starveling , the tailor . BOTTOM QUINCE STARVELING Here , Peter Quince . QUINCE Robin Starveling , you must play Thisby's mother . 25 SCENE II ]
... Starveling , the tailor . BOTTOM QUINCE STARVELING Here , Peter Quince . QUINCE Robin Starveling , you must play Thisby's mother . 25 SCENE II ]
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... STARVELING . BOTTOM Are we all met ? QUINCE Pat , 1 pat ; and here's a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal . This green plot2 shall be our stage , this hawthorn- brake our tiring - house ; 3 and we will do it in action , as we ...
... STARVELING . BOTTOM Are we all met ? QUINCE Pat , 1 pat ; and here's a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal . This green plot2 shall be our stage , this hawthorn- brake our tiring - house ; 3 and we will do it in action , as we ...
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... STARVELING ( as MOONSHINE ) This lanthorn doth the hornéd moon present.132 DEMETRIUS He should have worn the horns on his head.133 THESEUS He is no crescent134 and his horns are invisible , within the cir- 230 cumference.135 STARVELING ...
... STARVELING ( as MOONSHINE ) This lanthorn doth the hornéd moon present.132 DEMETRIUS He should have worn the horns on his head.133 THESEUS He is no crescent134 and his horns are invisible , within the cir- 230 cumference.135 STARVELING ...
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actors ancient Athenian Athens audience awake beautiful bird BOTTOM as PYRAMUS Bottom's characters Cupid dance Demetrius dote doth Duke Egeus Elizabethan elves Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair fairies fear flowers FLUTE as THISBE follow four lovers friends gentle give gleek goddess grow hast hate hath head hear heart Helena Hermia imagination kind ladies lion look lord lovers Lysander Lysander's magic maiden marry meaning Midsummer Night's Dream moon MOONSHINE Mustardseed never Nick Bottom night nine men's morris oath Oberon and Titania Peaseblossom person Peter Quince PHILOSTRATE play prologue Puck Pyramus and Thisbe quarrel Queen Quince's rehearse Robin Robin Goodfellow scene scorn Shakespeare shine sing sleep SNOUT SNUG song sound speak speech spirit STARVELING story sweet tears thee Theseus and Hippolyta thing Thisby Thisby's thou tongue troth true vows wakes wall wedding wild wood words young