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Pyr. O grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black! &emsp;O night, which ever art when day is not! O night! O night! alack, alack, alack! &emsp;I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot. And thou, O wall! O sweet, O lovely wall! &emsp;That stand'st between her father's ground and mine; Thou wall, O wall! O sweet, and lovely wall! &emsp;Show me thy chink to blink through with mine eyne.

[Wall holds up his fingers.]

Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this! &emsp;But what see I? No Thisby do I see. O wicked wall! through whom I see no bliss; &emsp;Curs'd be thy stones for thus deceiving me!

The. The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again.

Pyr. No, in truth, sir, he should not. 'De- ceiving me,' is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now, and I am to spy her through the wall. You shall see, it will fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes.

This. O wall! full often hast thou heard my moans, &emsp;For parting my fair Pyramus and me: My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones, &emsp;Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.

Pyr. I see a voice: now will I to the chink, &emsp;To spy an I can hear my Thisby's face. Thisby!  184 sensible: capable of perception 189 fall: happen 