monolouge

06 My mistress with a monster is in love.

8 Near to her close and consecrated bower,

10 While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,

13 A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,

15 That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,

18 Were met together to rehearse a play

20 Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day.

22 The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,

24 Who Pyramus presented, in their sport

26 Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake

28 When I did him at this advantage take,

30An ass's nole I fixed on his head:

33 Anon his Thisbe must be answered,

35 And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,

37 As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,

39 Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,

41 Rising and cawing at the gun's report,

46 Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,

48 So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;

50 And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls;

52 He murder cries and help from Athens calls.

54 Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong,

56 Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;

59 For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;

101 Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch.

106 I led them on in this distracted fear,

108 And left sweet Pyramus translated there:

110 When in that moment, so it came to pass,

112 Titania waked and straightway loved an as