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Night's Dream, V. i  &emsp;To meet at Ninus' tomb, there, there to woo. This grisly beast, which Lion hight by name, The trusty Thisby, coming first by night, Did scare away, or rather did affright; And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall, &emsp;Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain. Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall, &emsp;And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain: Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade, &emsp;He bravely broach'd his boiling bloody breast; And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade, &emsp;His dagger drew, and died. For all the rest, Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain, At large discourse, while here they do remain.

Exeunt all but Wall.

The. I wonder, if the lion be to speak.

Dem. No wonder, my lord: one lion may, when many asses do.

Wall. In this same interlude it doth befall That I, one Snout by name, present a wall; And such a wall, as I would have you think, That had in it a crannied hole or chink, Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby, Did whisper often very secretly. This loam, this rough-cast, and this stone doth show That I am that same wall; the truth is so; And this the cranny is, right and sinister, Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.

The. Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?

Dem. It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse, my lord.

The. Pyramus draws near the wall: silence!  141 hight: is called 144 fall: let fall 146 tall: goodly 165 sinister: left 