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A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM
act iii
part at once, cues and all. Pyramus enter: your cue is past; it is, ‘never tire.’
Flute.
O,—As true as truest horse, that yet would never tire.
Re-enter Puck, and Bottom with an ass’s head.
Bottom.
If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.
Quince.
O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted.
Pray, masters! fly, masters! Help!
[Exeunt Quince, Snug, Flute,
Snout, and Starveling.
Snout, and Starveling.
Puck.
I’ll follow you, I’ll lead you about a round,
Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier:
Sometime a horse I’ll be, sometime a hound,
A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;
And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn
Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.
[Exit.
Bottom.
Why do they run away? this is a knavery of them to make me afeard.
