Bottom speaking in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare
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Bottom speaking in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
by William Shakespeare
Get your apparel together,
good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your
pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look
o’er his part; for the short and the long is, our
play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have
clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion
pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the
lion’s claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions
nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I
do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet
comedy. No more words: away! go, away!
from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
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