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have deserved it: sixpence a day in Pyramus, or nothing.

Enter Bottom.

Bottom.

Where are these lads? where are these hearts ?

Quince.

Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!

Bottom.

Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I will tell you every thing, right as it fell out.

Quince.

Let us hear, sweet Bottom.

Bottom.

Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together, good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look o’er his part; for the short and the long is, our play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have clean linen;