Reading A Midsommer Nights Dreame [A Midsummer Night's Dream]

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Prol.

Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show,

But wonder on, till truth make all things plaine.

This man is Piramus, if you would know;

This beauteous Lady, Thisby is certaine.

This man, with lyme and rough‑cast, doth present

Wall, that vile wall, which did these louers sunder:

And through walls chink (poor soules) they are content

To whisper. At the which, let no man wonder.

This man, with Lanthorne, dog, and bush of thorne,

[missing 2 words] For if you will know,

[missing 4 words] Louers thinke no scorne

[missing 6.4 words]ere, there to wooe:

This grizy beast (which Lyon hight by name)

The trusty Thisby, comming first by night,

Did scarre away, or rather did affright:

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