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

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

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

You must say “paragon:” a paramour is, God bless us, a thing of naught.

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.

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 day for playing Pyramus, I’ll be hanged; he would