Was to be gone from Athens, where we might be bak Without the peril of th' Atheniandawa ba awo M Ege. Enough, enough; my Lord, you havelenough; I beg the law, the law upon his headpooli w 197 A They would have ftoll'n away, they would, Denarius, Thereby to have defeated you and me 9Y SH You, of your wife; and me, of my confentgA JH Of my confent, that the fhould be your wife. Dem. My Lord, fair Helen told me of their fealth, Of this their purpose hither to this wood And I in fury hither follow'd them ។ Fair Helena in fancy following me shadow The object and the pleafure of mine eye, Is only Helena. To her, my Lord, Was I betrothed ere I Hermia faw; c But like a fickness did I loath this food; But, as in health come to my natural talle, 14 For in the temple, by and by with us, brow air-centrs Come, Hippolita. bak [Exe. Duke, Hippol. and Train. Dem. Thefe things feem fmall and undiftinguishable, Like far-off mountains turned into clouds.net to 940 Her. Methinks, I fee thefe things with parted eye. When every thing feems double. Hel. So, methinks; absqling Can'tan 2. And 19 And I have found Demetrius like angemelly(28)o1 2 W "Mine peared double not mine own. wn.] Hermia had faid, things ap Helena fays, So, methinks; and then fubjoins, Demetrius was like a jewel, her own and not her own. Ac cording to common fenfe and construction, Demetrius is here com pared to fomething that has the property of appearing the fame, and yet not being and this was a thought natural enough, upon her declaring approbation of what Hermia had faid, that every thing feems double. But now, how has a jewel, or any precious thing, the property, rather than a more worthless one, Toftappearing. to be the fame and yet not the fame? This I believe, won't be easily found out. I make no doubt therefore, but the true reading is And I have found Demetrius like a gemella sido odT Mine orun, and not mine orun. 2 from gemellus, a twin. For Demetrius acted that night two fuch dif ferent parts, that he could hardly think him one and thecame Demetrius: but that there were two Twin Demetrius's to the aching this farce, like the two Socials. This makes good, and pertinent fenfe of the whole; and the corruption and the difficulty of the tranfcribers from gemell to jewel was to caly from the fimilar trace of the letters, understanding the true word, that, I think, it is Is not to Be queftion'd. (1301 vietsuno? cis Boy Evol Mr. Warburton. If fome over-nige fpirits should object to gemell wanting its autho rities as an English word, I think fit to obferve, in aid of my friend's fine conjecture, that it is no new thing with Shakespeare to coin and enfranchize words fairly derived; and fome fuch as have by the grammarians been called out Xeyouɛva, or words used but once. Again, though gemelt be not adopted eithervby Chaucer or perfer zonohrad knowledged by the dictionaries; yet both Blount, in his Gloffperappy and Philips, in his World of W Words, s, have geminels, which they interpret twins. And lastly, in two or three other paflegs, Shakespeare les the fame manner of fees berubandought. In the Comedy of Errors, where Adriana twin-brother, the fayslote sme? aldadin fee Aworbusbands or my eyes decaivel metud TmQ One of them, therefore, feem'd to be her own, but quas not 2 And in Sebastian, who were twin gapear his towelfth-nighiola alance, that ftrict a One face, one voice, one habit, aid two perons cries! to the Ly. And he did bid us follow temple. باشم follow him; Dem. Why then, we are awake; At 05 sei sloft they go out, Bottom y wakes. [Exeunt. Bot. When my cue comes, callime, and I will aneiffer. My next is, moft fair Pyramus hey, ho, Peter Quince, Flute the bellows-mender boSqn the tinIke Starveling god's my lifediftolen hence, and left JI me afleep? I have had a most rare vision 21ohad a Iis dream, past, the wit of man to say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go about storexpound this badream. Methought I was, there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought Is had,But man is but a patch'ds fool, if he will offer to fay Y197 what methought I had. The eye of man hath not 21 11dcard, the ear of man hath not feen's man's hand is not able to his tongue to conceive, dob his heart to report what my this dream; it shall be call'd Botdream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad met 19m's Dream, becaufe it hath no bottom; and I will 910m fing it in the latter end of a play before the duket; (29) ils peradventure, to maked it the more gracious," hall fing it after death. .9m sbom as9[Exit. 2 Peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her b'qs coatb.) At ber death ? At wboje 2: In all Recton's speech vacke is not the leaft mention of fhe-creature, to whom this relative can be coupled. 91 make not the leaft fcruple, but Bottom, for the fake of panda festil and to render his voluntary, as we call it, cious and extraordinary, faid ;-1 fhall fing it after death. He, as Pyramus, is killed upon the scene; and fo might promise to rise again at the conclufion of the Interlude, give the Duke × 21 aij more gra corruption of this dream by 4311swaly of lòng?11 The fource text is very Dom vidus. The fin after being funk by the vulgar pronunciation, the copyift might write it from the found,alters which the wife editors not understanding, concluded, two words were erroneoufly got together; so splitting them, and clappinginan b, produced the prefent readingat bera diguer ja 970) ms I am b63. & 29719 151st Dige to gnidi A asalts, ad: to tu mud alt of spasdɔ tastroomi grav yuburnd Idghnwob nadi 13233d shuil gains vägsen spuren oglas le of yillarg shuil s exist ed godwilsdq0, ilmall ni od 50 plod pa adpean sy boy tignan 91 LOY S SCENE ذا lqmar ad 01 wollo an bid bibed boA mid wolls CENE changes to the Town. „...subxa] "Enter Quince, Flute, Snowt, and stand buf Starveling. - Quin, Ave you feht to Bottom's house ? is he come -on Stat. He cannot be heard of: Out of doubt, he is stel busFeedfrhé come not, then the play is marr'd. It sbsgoes not forward, doth it bad sved : es Quins Hu is notspoffibles you have not a man, in all yal or in. Yea, and the belt perfon too; and he is a very 7 2 Flute. O fweet bully Bottom! thus hath he loft fix19 to pence a day during his life he could not have 'fcap'd ton e efix-pence a day; and the Duke had not given him fixod as pence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hang'd: he 613 would have deferv'd it. Six-pence a day, in Pyramus, 26 Hor nothing,pallad 1 bist yanibrosus bas 2013 910 197 21 1x39 Where are thefe lads where are these hearts ? nois Quing Bottom Omolt courageous day biv✪ moft stw en happy hour, hapet add moít si in ingin flygos Joson 979w zbrow owt habulɔao? „gaibmeflisban on moliba ads bound30) Aparamour is (God bless us a wing of hough. This is a reading, I am fure, of nought. My change of a fingle letter gives a very important change to the humour of the paffage. -A thing of Baught, means, a naughty thing, little better than downright bawdry. So, in Hamlet, Ophelia, when he talks a little grofsly to her, replies; You're naught, you're naught, my Lord, &c. 3. Bots Bot. Mafters, I am to difcourfe wonders; but ask me not what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I will tell you every thing as it fell out. Quin. Let us hear, fweet Bottom. ་ Bot. Not a word of me; all I will tell you, is, that the Duke hath dined. Get your appareb together,. good ftrings 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,(31) our play is referred in any cafe, let Thisby have clean lin nen; and let not him, that plays the lion, pare his nails, for they fhall hang out for the lion's claws; and, most dear actors eat no onions, nor garlick, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I do not doubt to hear them fay, it is a fweet comedy. away; goy away. GERASBEEKAST No more words §. SCENE, the Palace Enter Thefeus; Hippolita, Egeus, and his Lords. 360 HIPPOLITAnd no, yusqmonk T IS ftrange, my Thefeus, what thefe lovers fpeak of. Thef More ftrange than true. Fnever may believe 169W OT Thefe antic fables, nor these fairy toys 3~ dugun ɔdi eins oT (31) Our play is preferr'd:] This word is not to be taken ingeg most common acceptation here, as if their play was chofen in preference to the others; (for that: but means, that it was given in, among others, for the D afterwards not to be the fact ;) we a mage it, for the Judge's antwer. So, Pution à la itpin, Tays BET JA : ng paal dT Are |