Act IV Scene 2

`Tropolis

QUINCE
Have you sent to Bottom's house? Is he come home yet?

STARVELING
He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is transported.

FLUTE
If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes not forward, doth it?

QUINCE
It is not possible: you have not a man able to discharge Pyramus but he.

FLUTE
No, he hath simply the best wit of man.

QUINCE
Yea and the best person too.

Enter SNUG

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

FLUTE
O, sweet bully Bottom!

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. 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- Get your apparel together, every man look o'er his part. For the short and the long is, our play is preferred. In any case, let Thisbe have clean linen; and let not she that plays the lion pair her 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