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Dem. Why, all thefe fhould be in the lanthorn; for they are in the moon. But, filence; here comes Thifty. 20 obra line, Enter Thilbyn

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Hip. Well fhong, Magn...

Truly, the Moon inines with a good grace.
97 Thela Well mouz'd Lion.
Dem, And then came Pyramus.
Lyf. And fo the lion vanish'd,

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moitetali Enter Pyramus.

Pr. Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy funny beams; I thank thee, Moon, for fhining now fo bright; For by thy gracious, golden, glittering ftreams, to tafte of trueft Thifoy's fight.

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But flay: Ofpight!

But mark, poor Knight,

What dreadful dole is here?

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O dainty duck! O deer!

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Thy good;

What, ftain'd with blood!
What a

Approach, you furies fell:

O fates! come, come:

Cut thread and thrum,

Quail, cruth, conclude, and quell.

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Thef. This paffion, and the death of a dear friend would go near to make a man look fad. Hip. Befhew my heart, but I pity the man. Pyr. O

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Bethewore, nature, didft thou lions frame ?

Since lion vile hath here deflour'd Which is

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dear:

no, no-which was the faireft dame, That liv'd, that lov'd, that lik'd, that look'd with cheer. Come tears, confound: out fword, and wound

The pap of Pyramus.

Ay,

Ay, that left pap, where heart doth hop:
Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.

Now am I dead, now am I fled, my foul is in the sky;
Tongue, lofe thy light: moon, take thy flight;
Now die, die, die, die, die.

Dem. No die, but an ace for him; for he is but one. Ly. Lefs than an ace, man; for he is dead; he is nothing.

The. With the help of a furgeon he might yet recover, and prove an ass.

Hip. How chance the Moonfine is gone, before Thisby comes back and finds her lover?

Enter Thisby.

Thef. She will find him by ftar-light.
Here he comes; and her paffion ends the play.

Hip. Methinks, fhe fhould not use a long one for fuch a Pyramus: I hope, fhe will be brief.

Dem. A moth will turn the ballance, which Pyramus, which Thify is the better.

Lyf. She hath fpied him already with thofe fweet eyes, Dem. And thus fhe moans, videlicet. -(39)

Thif. Afleep, my love?

What dead, my dove?

O Pyramys, arife :

Speak, fpeak. Quite dumb?

Dead, dead? a tomb

Muft cover thy fweet eyes.

Thefe lilly brows, (40)

This cherry nofe,

(39) And thus fhe means

] Thus all the editions have it, I

think without any meaning. It should be, thus fhe moans; i. e. Jaments over her dead Pyramus. It is faid a little above, And her paffion ends the play.

(40) Thefe lilly lips, this cherry nofe.] All till now, runs in regular rhyme and metre. accident, are in this fingle inftance interrupted.

wrote:

Thiby's lamentation,
But both, by fome
I fufpect, the Poet

Thefe lilly brows,
This cherry nofe,

Now black brows being a beauty, lilly brows are as ridiculous às a eberry nose, green eyes, or cowflip cheeks.

Thefe

Thefe yellow cowflip cheeks,

Are gone, are gone:
Lovers, make moan!

His eyes were green as leeks.
O fifters three,

Come, come to me,

With hands as pale as milk;

Lave them in gore,

Since you have shore

With theers his thread of filk.

Tongue, not a word :

Come, trufly fword;

Come, blade, my breaft imbrue :

And farewel, friends,

Thus Thify ends;

Adieu, adieu, adieu.

Thef. Moon-fhine and Lion are left to bury the dead. Dem. Ay, and Wall too.

Bot. No, I affure you, the wall is down that parted their fathers. Will it pleafe you to fee the epilogue, or to hear a bergomak dance, between two of our company?

Thef. No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excufe. Never excufe; for when the players are all dead, there need none to be blam'd. Marry, if he, that writ it, had play'd Pyramus, and hung himself in Thiby's garter, it would have been a fine tragedy: and fo it is, truly, and very notably difcharg'd. But come, your bergomafk; let your epilogue alone.

[Here a dance of clowns The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almoft fairy time.

I fear, we shall out-fleep the coming morn,
As much as we this night have over-watch'd.
This palpable grofs play hath well beguil'd

The heavy gaite of night. Sweet friends, to bed,
A fortnight hold we this folemnity,

In nightly revel and new jollity.

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Enter

Enter Pack.

Puck. Now the hungry lion roars,
And the wolf behowls the moon: (41)
Whilft the heavy ploughman fnoars,
All with weary task fore-done.
Now the wafted brands do glow,

Whilft the fcritch-owl, icritching loud,
Puts the wretch, that lies in woe,
In remembrance of a fhroud.
Now it is the time of night,

That the graves, all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his spright,,
In the church-way paths to glide;
And we Fairies, that do run

By the triple Hecate's team,
From the prefence of the fun,
Following darkness like a dream,

(41) And the wolf beholds the moon :] As it is the defign of thefe lines to characterize the animals, as they prefent themselves at the hour of midnight; and as the wolf is not juftly characteriz'd by saying he b.bolds the moon; which all other beafts of prey, then awake, do and as the founds these animals make at that feafon, feem also inter ded to be reprefented; I make no question but the Poet wrote; And the wolfe baborts the moon.

For fo the wolf is exactly characterized, it being his peculiar property to bowl at the moon. (Bebowl, as bemoan, befeem, betrim, and an hundred othersMr. Warburton:

So, again, in As you like it.

Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling of Irifa wolves against the man.

So in Beaumont and Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess.

or the owl.

Or our great enemy, that fill doth bowl

Against the moon's pale beams.

For this is fpoken of the wolfe, and by a fhepherd, to whom that beaft was an enemy, with regard to his flock. And fo in Marftor's Antonio and Meilida, where the whole paffage feems to be copied from is of our Author..

Now barks the wolfe against the full-cheek'd moon ;
Now lyons half-clam'd entrails roar for food;
Now croaks the toad, and night-crows fbriek aloud,
Fluttring 'bout cafements of departing fouls:

Now gape the graves, and thro' their yawns let loofe
Imprifon'd fpirits to revift-earth.

Now

Now are frolick; not a mouse

Shall difturb this hallow'd house.

I am fent with broom before,

To sweep the duft behind the door.

Enter King and Queen of Fairies, with their Train. Ob. Through the houfe give glimmering light, By the dead and drowsy fire,

Every elf, and fairy fprite,

Hop as light as bird from brier

And this ditty after me

Sing, and dance it trippingly.

Queen. First rehearse this fong by roat,

To each word a warbling note.
Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we fing, and blefs this place.

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The SON G.

Now, until the break of day,
Through this houfe each Fairy fray.

To the best bride-bed will we,

Which by us fhall bleffed be:

And the iffue, there create,

Ever fhall be fortunate;

So fhall all the couples three

Ever true in loving be:

And the blots of nature's hand
Shall not in their iffue ftand;
Never mole, hair-lip, nor fear,
Nor mark prodigious, fuch as are
Despised in nativity,

Shall upon their children be: "
With this field-dew confecrate,

Every Fairy take his gate,

And each feveral chamber blefs,

Through this palace with fweet peace.
Ever fhall it fafely reft,

And the owner of it bleft.
Trip away, make no stay ;

Meet me all by break of day.

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