Chapter XXIII: Act IV: See note (VI)

Enter...] Enter Queen of Fairies, and Clown, and Fairies, and the King behind them. Qq Ff.

7: _Mounsieur_] Qq Ff. _Monsieur_ Rowe. See note (VII).

10: _get you_] Q1. _get_ Q2 Ff.

18: _your_] _thy_ Pope.

_neaf_] _neafe_ Qq F1. _newfe_ F2. _newse_ F3. _news_ F4.

_Mustardseed_] Qq F1 F2. _Mustard_ F3 F4.

21: _Cavalery_] Qq F1. _Cavalero_ F2 F3 F4.

22: _Cobweb_] _Peas-blossom_ Grey conj.

23: _marvellous_] _marvailes_ Q1 _marvels_ Capell. See note (II).

24: _do_] _doth_ Rowe (ed. 2).

25: _some_] _some some_ Q2.

26: _Let’s_] Q1. _Let us_ Q2 Ff.

27: _tongs_] _tongues_ F2.

Musick Tongs, Rural Musick. Ff. om. Q1.

32, 33: Printed in Q2 Ff as three lines ending _fairy...hoard...nuts._

33: _hoard_] Q2 Ff. om. Q1.

_thee_] _thee thence_ Hanmer. _thee the_ S. Walker conj.

38: _all ways_] Theobald. _alwaies_ Qq F1. _alwayes_ F2 F3. _always_ F4. _a while_ Hanmer.

_all ways away_] _away—away_ Upton conj. _always i’ th’ way_
Heath conj.

39: Qq and Ff punctuate _woodbine,...honisuckle,...entwist;_

_woodbine_] _woodrine_ Upton conj. _weedbind_ Steevens conj.

40: _entwist; the female_] _entwist the maple;_ Warburton conj.

40, 41: _entwist;......Enrings_] _entwist,...Enring,_ Capell.

46: _favours_] Q1 F4. _savours_ Q2 F1 F2 F3.

52: _flowerets’_] _flouriets_ Qq Ff.

57: _fairy_] Qq Ff. _fairies_ Dyce.

62: _this_] _the_ Johnson.

63: _other_] _others_ Rowe.

68: _Be_] Qq. _Be thou_ Ff.

70: _o’er_] Theobald (Thirlby conj.). _or_ Qq Ff.

76: _do_] Q1 F2 F3 F4. _doth_ Q2 F1.

_his_] Q1. _this_ Q2 Ff.

77: _this_] Qq. _his_ Ff.

79: _sleep of all these five_] Theobald (Thirlby conj.). _sleepe: of all these, fine_ Qq F1 F2. _sleep; of all these find_ F3 F4. _sleep. Of all these fine_ Rowe (ed. 2).

80: _ho!_] _howe_ Q1.

81: _Now, when thou wakest_] Q1. _When thou wak’st_ Q2 F1. _When thou awak’st_ F2 F3 F4.

87: _fair prosperity_] Q1. _fair posterity_ Q2 Ff. _far posterity_ Hanmer.

88: _the_] Qq F1. _these_ F2 F3 F4.

90: _Fairy_] Qq. _Faire_ F1 F2. _Fair_ F3 F4.

92: _sad_] _fade_ Theobald.

93: _the night’s_] Rowe. _the nights_ Q2 Ff. _nights_ Q1.

98: After this line Ff give the stage direction [Sleepers lye still.

99: [Horns......within.] [Winde horne. Q1. [Winde hornes. Q2 Ff.

100. SCENE II. Pope.

104: _let them_] om. Pope.

110: _bear_] Qq Ff. _boar_ Hanmer.

113: _fountains_] _mountains_ Anon. ap. Theobald conj.

114: _Seem’d_] F2 F3 F4. _Seeme_ Qq F1.

119: _Thessalian_] _Thessalonian_ F4.

125: _is_] om. Q1.

127: _Nedar’s_] _Nestor’s_ S. Walker conj.

128: _of their_] Q1. _of this_ Q2 Ff. _at their_ Pope.

130: _rite_] Pope. _right_ Qq Ff.

136: [He and the rest kneel to Theseus. Capell.

141: _is_] _is is_ F1.

149, 150: _might,...law._] _might...lawe,_ Q1. _might be...law._ Q2 Ff. _might,...law,—_ Dyce. _might Be without peril...law._ Hanmer.

160: _following_] Q1. _followed_ Q2 Ff.

162–164: Qq and Ff end the lines at _love...snow...gaud._

163: _Melted as_] _Is melted as_ Pope. _Melted as doth_ Capell. _All melted as_ Anon. conj.

169: _saw Hermia_] Steevens. _see Hermia_ Qq Ff. _did see Hermia_ Rowe (ed. 1). _Hermia saw_ Rowe (ed. 2).

170: _in sickness_] Steevens (Farmer conj.). _a sickness_ Qq Ff.

172: _I do_] Q1. _do I_ Q2 Ff.

175: _more will hear_] Q1. _will hear more_ Q2. _shall hear more_ Ff.

183: _Come, Hippolyta_] _Come, my Hippolita_ Capell.

184: Dem.] Lys. Capell conj.

[Exeunt...] Exit Duke and Lords. Ff.

188: _like_] om. Hanmer.

_jewel_] _gemell_ Theobald (Warburton).

189, 190: _Are you sure That we are awake?_] Qq. omitted in Ff. _But are you sure That we are well awake_ Capell. _But are you sure That we are now awake_ Steevens conj. _Are you sure That we are now awake_ Malone conj. _Are you sure That we are yet awake_ Anon. conj.

194: _did bid_] Q1. _bid_ Q2 Ff.

195, 196: Printed as prose in Qq Ff, as verse in Rowe (ed. 2).

196: _let us_] Q2 Ff. _lets_ Q1.

197: SCENE III. Pope.

[Awaking] Bottom wakes. Ff. om. Qq.

201: _I have had a dream_] Qq. _I had a dream_ Ff.

203: _to_] om. Q1.

205: _a patched_] Ff. _patcht a_ Qq. {Transcriber's Note: this linenote has been copied here from the original book's ADDENDA.}

212: _a play_] _the play_ Hanmer. _our play_ S. Walker conj.

213: _at her_] _after_ Theobald. _at Thisby’s_ Collier MS. ~~~~~

SCENE II. _Athens._ QUINCE’S _house_.

_Enter_ QUINCE, FLUTE, SNOUT, _and_ STARVELING.

_Quin._ Have you sent to Bottom’s house? is he come home yet?

_Star._ He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported.

_Flu._ If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes 5 not forward, doth it?

_Quin._ It is not possible: you have not a man in all Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.

_Flu._ No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft man in Athens. 10

_Quin._ Yea, and the best person too; and he is a very paramour for a sweet voice.

_Flu._ You must say ‘paragon’: a paramour is, God bless us, a thing of naught.

_Enter_ SNUG.

_Snug._ Masters, the Duke is coming from the temple, 15 and there is two or three lords and ladies more married: if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made men.

_Flu._ O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a day during his life; he could not have scaped sixpence a day: an the Duke had not given him sixpence a 20 day for playing Pyramus, I’ll be hanged; he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in Pyramus, or nothing.

_Enter_ BOTTOM.

_Bot._ Where are these lads? where are these hearts?

_Quin._ Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour! 25

_Bot._ 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.

_Quin._ Let us hear, sweet Bottom.

_Bot._ Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, 30 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; and let not him that 35 plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out for the lion’s claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet comedy. No more words: away! go, away! [_Exeunt._ 40

~~~~~ Linenotes: _A Midsummer-Night’s Dream_, IV, 2.

SCENE II.] SCENE IV. Pope.

1: Enter...] Enter Quince, Flute, Thisby, and the rabble. Qq. Enter Quince, Flute, Thisby, Snout, and Starveling. Ff.

3: Star.] Ff. Flute. Qq.

5, 6: _goes not_] Qq F1 F2. _goes_ F3 F4.

11: Quin.] Snout. Halliwell conj.

13: Flu.] Quin. Anon. conj.

14: _naught_] F2 F3 F4. _nought_ Qq F1.

19: _scaped_] _scraped_ Grey conj.

27: _no_] Ff. _not_ Qq.

28: _right_] Qq. om. Ff.

30: _All that_] _all_ Rowe.

34: _preferred_] _proffered_ Theobald conj.

38, 39: _doubt but_] Qq F1 F2. _doubt_ F3 F4.

40: _go, away!_] _go away_ Qq Ff. ~~~~~