 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 626 pages
...Most fair Pyramus." — Hey, ho ! — Peter Quince 1 Flute, the bellowsmender ! Snout, the tinker! Starveling! God's my life ! stolen hence, and left...the wit of man to say what dream it was : — man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was, — there is no man can tell what.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 148 pages
...Quince? Flute the bellows mender? Snout the tinker? Starveling? God's my life! Stolen hence, and left 202 me asleep? I have had a most rare vision. I have had...past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was - there is no man can tell what. Methought... | |
 | John Sutherland, Cedric Watts - 2000 - 244 pages
...'ineffable' I simply mean 'beyond expression', for that is what Bottom later finds to be the case: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream...past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what.... | |
 | Sandor Goodhart - 2000 - 306 pages
...his sleep (and returned to his wonted form), repeats the sentiments expressed by the other dreamers: "I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was" (4. 1 .204-06). While all of these "dreams," in fact, happened (Titania was infatuated with an ass;... | |
 | Robert Weimann - 2000 - 324 pages
..."stol'n hence" (204), he, alone on stage, tells the audience of his dream and how this dream surpasses "the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about [t'J expound this dream" (205-07). The dream transcends the poetics of "glass"... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...next is 'Most fair Pyramus'. Heigh-ho! Peter Quince? Flute, the bellows-mender? Snout, the tinker? Starveling? God's my life! Stolen hence, and left...past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was -there is no man can tell what. Methought... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...thing that worries him slightly is his dream, which has been too wondrous for his verbal capacity : I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,...past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was - there is no man can tell what.... | |
 | 2001 - 86 pages
...awake) When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. (He stares around for a moment.) God's my life! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream...past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound his dream. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream.... | |
 | A. James Reichley - 2002 - 312 pages
...fairies after being turned into a donkey by the impish Puck. He has his farcical aspect, but he also has "had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. ... I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream,' because... | |
 | Michael Neill - 2000 - 556 pages
...his auditors, would make him something Other than true Athenian and would require another language: "I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,...past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about t' expound this dream. Methought I was—there is no man can tell what.... | |
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I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,— past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. 
