second half

SCENE V The magical wood. TITANIA lying asleep.	[Enter USR QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING]	Music Bottom surveys the area – very confident  PUCK CLAPS HIS HANDS & EVERYONE FREEZES	Puck is watching invisible.
PUCK	All the world’s a stage & all the men & women merely players:   They have their exits & entrances: & one man – pointing at Bottom – in his time plays many parts.	Puck claps his hands & the actors unfreeze.
QUINCE	Here’s a marvelous place for our rehearsal, and we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke.
BOTTOM	Peter Quince-? There are things in this tragedy  of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please. To bring in a lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing; for there   is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living; and we ought to look to't.	All the mechanicals agree with Bottom, although no one is ever afraid of wild birds..
SNOUT	Therefore a prologue must tell he is not a lion.	All mechanicals agree. Bottom has an idea.
BOTTOM	The actor must speak from the lion’s neck, saying thus, --'Ladies,'-- I would entreat you,--not to fear, I am a man,   as others are.	They clap enthusiastically & Bottom takes the credit & a bow.
QUINCE	Then all is well. (He tries to silence everyone) But there is one hard thing. …(He holds up a finger)  Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight.
SNOUT	Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?
BOTTOM	Look in the almanac;	Starveling takes an almanac out of his pocket.
STARVELING	Yes, it doth shine that night.
QUINCE	We must have a wall for Pyramus and Thisby did talk through the chink of a wall.
SNOUT	What say you, Bottom?	(The mechanicals look toward Bottom as the authority).
BOTTOM	Some man must present Wall: and let him hold his fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisby whisper.	Bottom illustrates. [Enter PUCK behind USR]
QUINCE	Then all is well. Come, Rehearse your parts. Pyramus, you begin: and so every one according to his cue.
PUCK Puck in an aside to the audience	What hempen homespuns swagg’ring here, So near the cradle of the fairy queen? What, --a play! I'll be an auditor; An actor too, perhaps.	hempen homespuns= country bumpkins auditor = official of accounts
QUINCE	Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.
BOTTOM	Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet,--	Standing corrected – how does Bottom react?
QUINCE	Odours!
BOTTOM	--odours savours sweet: So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby dear. But hark, a voice! stay thou but here awhile, And by and by I will to thee appear.	(Bottom exits the stage L). very dramatically
PUCK	A stranger Pyramus than e'er played here.	Puck in an aside. Puck mimics Bottom as he mimicked Oberon.
FLUTE	Must I speak now?
QUINCE	Ay,; for you must understand he goes but to see a noise that he heard, and is to   come again.
FLUTE	Most radiant Pyramus.
QUINCE	Most radiant Pyramus.  (Quince speaks it higher)
FLUTE	Most radiant Pyramus.  I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb.	Quince takes his cane and prompts a  higher voice
	(Bottom is practicing his next lines. He picks up the mirror that the fairy stole from the mortals and   admires himself in the mirror. Puck creeps up behind him and sprinkles flower   petals on him.  Bottom swats at the fairy flower petals on his back).
QUINCE	NINUS  (Quince speaks loudly) Pyramus enter: your cue is past;
BOTTOM	If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine!(The mechanicals see him)	[Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass's head]
FLUTE:	O monstrous! O strange!
QUINCE	We are haunted. Pray, masters! fly! Help!
FLUTE	O monstrous!
SNOUT	Help!
STARVELING	Pray Masters!
SNUG	We are haunted!	[Exeunt QUINCE, SNUG, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING screaming Fly! Help! USL]
PUCK	I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round, Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound and neigh, and bark at every turn. (Puck exits USL)	He neighs and barks, chasing the   mechanicals.
BOTTOM	Why do they run? I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me!  But I will not stir from this place, do what they can: I will walk up and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid.	Bottom sings Pump her Dry https://chordu.com/chords-tabs-pump-shanty-id_fVK-gb44G9k
BOTTOM SINGS	They say life has its ups & downs That really now is quite profound I’d like to push the capstan round But it’s pump me boys before we drown Pump me boys, pump her dry Down to hell and up to the sky Bend your back and break your bones	He surprises himself by braying.
TITANIA [Awaking]	What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed?
BOTTOM Sings the last line	We’re just a thousand miles from home. HEE HAW
TITANIA	I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again: Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note; So is mine eye enthrall’d to thy shape; … I love thee.
BOTTOM	Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.(Makes horse neighing sounds with lips compressed)
TITANIA	Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.	[Enter PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, and MUSTARDSEED from behind bower] Titania attempts to kiss him, and Bottom keeps talking.
BOTTOM	Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough,  I would get out of this wood.	Faeries wrap a cloth around him preventing him from fleeing.
TITANIA	Out of this wood do not desire to go: I love thee!
TITANIA	Come, wait upon him(faeries); lead him to my bower. Tie up my love's tongue bring him silently.	As Oberon sleeps, Puck approaches.
OBERON (The music has wakened him)	I wonder if Titania be awaked;	PUCK Puck whispers into Oberon’s ear
OBERON	This falls out better than I could devise. (They both laugh) But hast thou yet latch'd the Louisiana lover's eyes With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?	(The following speech is not understood, but is noise to announce Demetrius and Hermia’s entrance USR.DEMETRIUS I, pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty:Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear, As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.
PUCK	I took him sleeping,--,-- And the young woman by his side: That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed.	Puck is full of himself	Musicians play.
OBERON	Stand close.  This is the lover.
PUCK	This is the woman, but not this the man.	Puck & Oberon are invisible.
DEMETRIUS	There is no following her in this fierce vein: Here for a while I will remain. Bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe:	[Lies down and sleeps] Hermia exits.
OBERON	What hast thou done? Thou hast mistaken quite and laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:
PUCK(Puck is humiliated)	Then fate o'er-rules, that, one man holding troth, A million fail, confounding oath on oath.
OBERON	Go swifter than the wind, and Helena look thou find: All fancy-sick she is with sighs of love.BEAT Bring her here: I'll charm Demetrius’s eyes against she do appear
PUCK	I go, I go; look how I go, Swifter than arrow from a bow.	(In Puck’s bumbling, falls and rises again smiling. Oberon shakes his head)	Musicians play. [Exit PUCK]
OBERON(Oberon drops the juice on Demetrius’s eyes)	Flower of this purple eye sink in apple of his eye. When thou wakest, if she be by, let her shine lovelight in thy eye	.(Almost caressingly, Oberon whispers next to Demetrius and Puck spoils the moment).
PUCK	Captain of our faerie band, Helena is here at hand and the youth, mistook by me, pleading for a lover's fee.		Musicians play. [Enter PUCK singing -“Savez-vous planter les choux”]
PUCK, aside to the audience	Shall we their fond pageant see?  Lord, what fools these mortals be!
OBERON	Stand aside: the noise they make will cause Demetrius to awake.
PUCK	Then will two at once woo one? That must needs be sport alone!
LYSANDER	I had no judgment when to her I swore.
HELENA	You do advance your cunning. (She cannot believe he is going to such lengths to humiliate her) These vows are Hermia's:
DEMETRIUS [Awaking]	O Helena, goddess, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thee?	(Demetrius reaches in to kiss her,   and Lysander, comes between them).
LYSANDER	No. Demetrius loves not you.
HELENA	Wherefore was I to this keene mockery borne?	Lysander shakes his head no. [Re-enter HERMIA]	Musicians play.
HERMIA	Lysander, why unkindly didst thou leave me so?
LYSANDER	Why should I stay? Helena is my love!
HERMIA	You speak not as you think: it cannot be.
HELENA	Lo, she is one of this confederacy! To join with men in scorning your poor friend?	(Helena is amazed that Hermia is   in on the joke. The men are in the background arguing)
HERMIA	it seems that you scorn me.	Puck and Oberon watch the fracas with wonderment.
DEMETRIUS	Helena, I say I love thee more than he can do.	This may be implied and not said aloud.
LYSANDER	If thou say so, prove it.
DEMETRIUS	Quick, come!	(after you)
HERMIA	Lysander, what does this signify?
LYSANDER	Hang off, or I will shake thee from me like a serpent.	(Go ahead,Demetrius) (HERMIA throws her arms around LYSANDER)	Musicians play
HERMIA	Why are you grown so rude? Sweet love,--
LYSANDER	Thy love! Out, tawny Tartar, out! Out, hated potion, hence!	While Lysander is speaking to Hermia, Demetrius grabs Lysander again.
HERMIA	Do you not jest?
HELENA	Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!
HERMIA	Puppet?	(She stalks, circling then attacking Helena)
HELENA	I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen, Let her not hurt me: (She runs between the men’s legs and falls as Hermia grabs her.) Let her not strike me.	Oberon and Puck grimace as the fight ensues.
LYSANDER	(to Helena) Be not afraid; she shall not harm thee	.(He jumps to grasp Helena, and Demetrius grabs Lysander, gaining his place, pushing Lysander to the back).
HELENA	Though she be but little, she is fierce	Demetrius holds Hermia back. Helena exits
LYSANDER	Now follow, if thou darest.
DEMETRIUS	Follow! Nay, I'll go with thee.	[Exeunt LYSANDER and DEMETRIUS USL to different places to seek a stick to hit the other with]
HERMIA	I am amazed, and know not what to say.	[Exeunt HERMIA USL]	Musicians play.
OBERON	This is thy negligence: still thou mistak’st, Or else committ'st thy knaveries willfully?	(Is this another mistake, or did you do it on purpose).
PUCK	Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook. And so far am I glad it so did sort --as this their jangling I esteem a sport.	(Lysander finds a stick and tests it, then slowly begins looking for Demetrius) I’m enjoying this sport
OBERON	Thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight: Robin, overcast the night; And lead these testy rivals so astray as one come not within another's way: Then crush this herb into Lysander's… Lysander’s eye (He makes sure that Puck understands); to take all error with his sight. When they next   wake, all this derision shall seem a dream.	Overcast the night – hide the moon [Re-enter USL LYSANDER or he turns]	Puck sings -“Savez-vous planter les choux”]
LYSANDER	Proud Demetrius? Speak thou now	(Lysander strikes at air, barely missing Puck. PUCK moves behind and in front of him).
PUCK (Demetrius	Here, villain; drawn and ready. Where art thou?
LYSANDER	I will be with thee straight.	Puck plays the opposite lover so that both Lysander & Demetrius are confused.
PUCK (Demetrius)	Follow me, then, To plainer ground.	Flat playing field so we can fight better. (Lysander exits behind scrim on ship .Demetrius enters.
DEMETRIUS	Lysander! Speak again: Where dost thou hide thy head?	Demetrius is exhausted.
PUCK(Lysander)	Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars and wilt not come? I'll whip thee with a rod:
DEMETRIUS	Lysander, speak again.	He yawns & falls asleep.
PUCK (LYSANDER)	Come, coward, follow my voice.
LYSANDER	The villain is much lighter-heeled than I! That fallen am I in dark uneven way and here will rest me.	Exhausted, Lysander sleeps.
PUCK	Ho, ho, ho! Come hither: I am here.	Helena enters on her last leg.
HELENA (She crawls in)	O weary night, O long and tedious night, Steal me awhile from mine own company.	. [Lies down and sleeps]
PUCK	Yet but three? Come one more; Two of both kinds make up four. Here she comes, curst and sad: Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.	[Re-enter HERMIA]
HERMIA	Never so weary, never so in woe, I can no further crawl, no further go.	(She lies down and sleeps)
PUCK	When thou wakest, Thou takest true delight in the sight of thy former lady's eye: and all shall be well.	He applies the flower to Lysander’s eyes.
SCENE VII The magical grove Early the next morning		Song is Gentil coquelicot (Pretty Poppy) on Smithsonian website Artists: Andre’ Claveau & Mathe’ Altery	Musicians play as FAERIES sing & dance
		[Awakened TITANIA and BOTTOM; PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, MUSTARDSEED, and other FAERIES attending; OBERON & PUCK behind unseen] Lovers are asleep
TITANIA	Sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy, And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head, And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.
BOTTOM	Scratch my head for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.	He speaks to Peaseblossom who   complies
TITANIA	What, wilt thou hear some music, my sweet love?
BOTTOM	I have a reasonable good ear in music.
TITANIA	O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee!
BOTTOM	Let none of your people stir me: I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.	(Oberon watches solemnly) [Titania & Bottom  sleeps] FAERIES sing Pretty Poppy
TITANIA	Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. FAERIES, begone, and be all ways away.	[Exeunt FAERIES around bower, singing softly]
OBERON	Welcome, good Robin. See'st thou this sweet sight? Her dotage now I do begin to pity: I will undo this hateful imperfection of her eyes: (Touches her eyes with the flower) And, gentle Puck, (Puck takes the donkey ears off Bottom) May all to Athens back again repair And think no more of this night's accidents. But as the fierce vexation of a dream (Puck leaves)USR . (Oberon lies on her other side and caresses her causing her to wake) Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen.	Dotage – to dote upon
TITANIA	My Oberon! what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.	(She is startled as she sees Bottom)
Oberon:	Come, my queen, take hands with me. And will to-morrow midnight solemnly Dance in Duke Theseus' house   triumphantly,	(They stroll among the lovers)(Oberon looks deeply into her eyes),
PUCK	Faery king, attend, and mark: I do hear the morning lark.	Faeries dance & Puck sings –giving Theseus & Hippolyta time to re-enter.
		Egeus enters with Theseus & Hippolyta following.
EGEUS	My lord, this is my daughter here asleep; How comes this gentle concord to sleep by hate, and fear no enmity.	Egeus shouts to Theseus & Hippolyta who enter. The couples awaken startled.
LYSANDER	My Lord, half sleep, half waking…Our intent was to be gone from Athens, where we might without the peril of the Athenian……	Egeus interrupts him angrily
EGEUS	Enough. My lord; I beg the law, the law, upon his head.	Demetrius stands in front of Lysander speaking to Theseus. Hermia stands next to Lysander as Helena stands with Demetrius.
DEMETRIUS	My lord, The object and the pleasure of mine eye, Is only fair Helena. To her, my lord, was I betroth'd.	(Puck watches with amusement. Hippolyta takes Theseus slightly away, gestures and speaks, looking at the lovers.  Then Theseus, smiles and speaks)
THESEUS	Fair lovers, you are fortunately met: Of this discourse we more will hear anon. Egeus, in the temple by and by these couples shall eternally be knit:. Come, Hippolyta.	(The couples look at each other and smile) Theseus tells Egeus it is settled. Royalty exits as Bottom enters center stage	Musicians play.
BOTTOM [Awaking]	When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer: Heigh-ho! Peter Quince! Flute, Snout,! Starveling!They have stolen hence, and left me asleep!(He looks around puzzled, and picks up part of Titania’s Crown. He is visibly sad)  I have had a most rare vision. Me thought I was,--and me thought I had----		.
SCENE VIII that evening		[Enter QUINCE, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING]	Light changes to dusk. The moon is full
QUINCE:	Oh most happy hour!	Faeries ready the ceremony
		The lovers are discoursing, and Hippolyta listens amused, yet mesmerized by the stories. Hippolyta kisses Hermia and Helena. The lovers are excited about being reunited and together.
HIPPOLYTA	'Tis strange my Theseus, the tale that these lovers speak of.
THESEUS	More strange than true: I never believe these fairy fantasies. Come now; what masques, what revels are in hand?	(Philostrate (PUCK) hands Theseus a paper and walks around keeping order, telling servants what to do, readying the stage). LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HERMIA, and HELENA move to find seats The players and Philostrate complete the stage. PHILOSTRATE (PUCK) winks at the audience.  Enter Quince with the script, Bottom as Pyramus, Flute as Thisby, Snout as the Wall, Starveling as Moonshine with a dog attached to his robe/pants, and Snug as the Lion. Behind stage, they are rehearsing, frightened, and say a brief prayer. They hear the trumpets and start.].
PHILOSTRATE	A tedious scene of young Pyramus & his love, Thisbe; very tragical mirth.
THESEUS	I will hear that play
PHILOSTRATE	If it please your grace.  The prologue approach.	[Enter QUINCE with the script as director][Enter Pyramus and Thisbe, Wall, Moonshine, and Lion]
QUINCE, bowing	If we offend, it is with our good   will, with good will To show our simple skill.
SNOUT(with a casement on his head and a wall on his arms)	In this same interlude it doth befall that I, one Snout by name, present a wall; And such a wall,that had in it a crannied hole or chink,(grand gesture – chink)  through which the lovers, ….. through which the lovers.
QUINCE: (whispers calmly) Pyramus and Thisby Pyramus and Thisby		,(the lovers appear on each side of the wall tentatively, then disappear as if it is a wrong cue) (then shouts)
SNOUT	Pyramus and Thisby did whisper often very secretly.	(the lovers appear again) Quince continues to read the script. (Helena and Hermia laugh behind fans)[Enter Pyramus][Wall holds up his fingers] Pyramus over acts.
THESEUS (laughing)	Pyramus draws near the wall: silence!
PYRAMUS	O grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black! O night, O night! (He steps with each alack) alack, ..alack, …alack, I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot! Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall, Show me thy BEAT chink,…(he moves the chink to fit his eye) . to blink through with mine eyne!	Snout nods his head. Philostrate rolls eyes [Enter Thisbe]
PYRAMUS	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.	(He spies through the chink.  He moves the hand so abruptly that the casement falls off and Pyramus and Wall bump heads) (Speaking to audience)
THISBE(Left hand extended, right hand slaps breast)	O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans, For parting my fair Pyramus and me!
PYRAMUS(Cupped hands to chink)	I see a voice: now will I to the chink, to spy and I can hear my Thisby's face. Thisby!
THISBE	My love BEAT thou art, my love I think.
PYRAMUS	I am thy love; O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!	WALL is overcome by emotion. PYRAMUS and THISBE kiss
PYRAMUS	Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb
QUINCE	Ninus’ tomb
PYRAMUS	That’s Ninus’ tomb meet me straightway?
THISBE	I come without delay.	[Exeunt PYRAMUS and THISBE]
SNOUT	Thus have I, WALL, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus WALL away doth go.	[Exeunt WALL]
HIPPOLYTA	This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.
THESEUS	Silence.  Here come two noble beasts in, a moon and a lion.	[Enter LION and MOONSHINE] Moonshine carries a lantern, bush, and has a dog attached to his boot.
LION	Ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear the smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor. (Takes his mask off to keep the women from being scared) Then know that I, Snug the joiner, have never been a real lion. ROAR	Hermia claps and Lion ROARS again.
THESEUS	A very gentle beast, of a good conscience. Let us listen to the moon.
STARVELING	All that I have to say, is, to tell   you that the lantern is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.	[Enter THISBE]
HELENA (laughing)	Silence! Here comes Thisbe.
THISBE	This is old Ninny's tomb.
QUINCE	Ninus’ Ninus’	he eats the script
THISBE	This is old Ninus's tomb. Where is my love?
LION [Roaring]	Oh—ROAR!	[THISBE runs off Her scarf falls off.]
DEMETRIUS	Well roared, LION.	Next three lines may be cut
THESEUS	Well run, Thisbe.
HIPPOLYTA	Well shone, Moon.	[Enter PYRAMUS]
PYRAMUS	Sweet Moon, I thank thee for shining now so bright; DEEP BREATH But stay, O spite! What dreadful dole is here! How can it be? O dainty duck! O dear! Thy mantle stain'd with blood!	Enter FAERIES to watch. [PYRAMUS stabs himself]
PYRAMUS	Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. The sword is in his armor and he lifts himself up on the sword.The audience claps.  He rises and tries to put the sword horizontally through his armor. Quince believes he is dead and is shocked and perplexed that he is resurrected)  Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Out, sword, and wound Pyramus  [Exit Moonshine] Now die, die, die, die, die.
THISBE Thisbe starts as a falsetto, but is carried away and actually becomes an actor.  The audience is deeply moved.	FALSETTO:Asleep, my love? What, dead, (realization of death, and he is caught in the moment and truly acts in his own voice) my dove? O Pyramus, arise! Speak. dead? Come, trusty sword; [Stabs herself] farewell, friends; Thus Thisby ends: Adieu, adieu, adieu.[Dies]	The audience does not know what to say. The women wipe away tears, then everyone claps  The actors are joyous, clapping backs..	Musicians play.
BOTTOM [Starting up]	Will it please you to see the epilogue?
THESEUS	No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all dead there needs none to be blamed.	Audience claps again. Actors congratulate each other again, then disperse to different areas of the stage.  Bottom goes DLS and takes out Titania’s crown, looks at it, smells it, and holds it to his breast.
THESEUS	The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve: Lovers, to bed.		Musicians play Everyone freezes
PUCK	If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here while these visions did appear. With silver moonbeams consecrate, Mortals’ and FAERIES’ fantastical fate; And from moss-laden honeyed bowers of dew With good wishes, we Shadows bid you adieu Puck takes off the man’s wig, fluffs out hair, curtsies, and laughs. Adieu	Hippolyta and Theseus stand UCS.  Hermia and Lysander stand LCS; Helena and Demetrius stand RCS. FAERIES appear watching Bottom..	Philostrate  takes off disguise and is Puck.