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124 This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;

Myself the man i’ the moon do seem to be.

This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man should be put into the lanthorn. How is it else the man i’ the moon?

He dares not come there for the candle; for, you see, it is already in snuff.

I am aweary of this moon: would he would change!

It appears, by his small light of discretion, that he is in the wane; but yet, in courtesy, in all reason, we must stay the time.

Proceed, Moon.

All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.

Why, all these should be in the lanthorn; for all these are in the moon. But, silence! here comes Thisbe.