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Nay, faith, let not me play a woman; I have a beard coming.

That’s all one: you shall play it in a mask, and you may speak as small as you will.

An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I’ll speak in a monstrous little voice, ‘Thisne, Thisne;’ ‘Ah Pyramus, my lover dear! thy Thisby dear, and lady dear!’

No, no; you must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby.

Well, proceed.

Robin Starveling, the tailor.

Here, Peter Quince.

Robert Starveling, you must play Thisby’s mother. Tom Snout, the tinker.