Anne Locke My Many Sins Sonnet Free Download Public Domain Poetry Tale Teller Recital.

hello tale tellers welcome to a recital of what turns out to be probably the first sonnet written in england that we can find anyway and guess what it was by a woman how incredible is that we always think that we have sonnets we think wordsworth keats but no actually it was a woman now listen the sonnet is italian it's an italian genre we imported it this is the the thing with um europe isn't it we we sort of influenced we each country influenced the other and we were a big part of that um movement from country to country um in the 1500s so anlock was she was knocking about as it were um from 1530 to circa we don't really know about 1530 to about 1590. so this uh sonnet was written during that time and it took on the form that shakespeare used 30 years later 30 years later so you know ahead of our time let's face it as so many of us are us women oh yes i know and men too right so shall i shall i recite it so this is uh anlock we don't have an exact date so analog my many sins in number are increased

my many sins in number are increased with weight whereof in sea of deep despair my sinking soul is now so sore oppressed that now in peril and in present fear i cry sustain me lord and lord i pray with endless number of thy mercies take the endless number of my sins away so by thy mercy for thy mercy's sake rule on me lord relieve me with thy grace my sin is cause that i so need to have thy mercies aid in my so woeful case my sin is cause that scarce i dare to crave thy mercy manifold which only you may relieve my soul and take my sins away

it's quite dramatic isn't it i hope you like that i'm going to feature 10 women writers uh in the next in the coming days of sonnets particularly sonnets of course i feature lots of uh lots of writers men and women this is not uh um an only woman uh uh podcast of course that would know that would be um dull wouldn't it after a bit and only anything podcast does get a bit dull i think so i really hope you enjoyed that but um have a look you know when you read his stuff from history and uh somebody says this this is true because it's in a history book always question it always always question it just because you read it in a book or heard it online sorting google or any of these things you know it doesn't mean anything only the victor writes the history and in in the in the future in many hundreds of years in another 500 years time the really who would have written history google and google gets stuff wrong all the time but this is what happens when when you leave it to where the money is you know um sad but true so make your own history and make your own research find find stuff out i'll be back later with another one

Anne Locke My Many Sins Sonnet Free Download Public Domain Poetry Tale Teller Recital.

hello tale tellers welcome to a recital of what turns out to be probably the first sonnet written in england that we can find anyway and guess what it was by a woman how incredible is that we always think that we have sonnets we think wordsworth keats but no actually it was a woman now listen the sonnet is italian it's an italian genre we imported it this is the the thing with um europe isn't it we we sort of influenced we each country influenced the other and we were a big part of that um movement from country to country um in the 1500s so anlock was she was knocking about as it were um from 1530 to circa we don't really know about 1530 to about 1590. so this uh sonnet was written during that time and it took on the form that shakespeare used 30 years later 30 years later so you know ahead of our time let's face it as so many of us are us women oh yes i know and men too right so shall i shall i recite it so this is uh anlock we don't have an exact date so analog my many sins in number are increased

my many sins in number are increased with weight whereof in sea of deep despair my sinking soul is now so sore oppressed that now in peril and in present fear i cry sustain me lord and lord i pray with endless number of thy mercies take the endless number of my sins away so by thy mercy for thy mercy's sake rule on me lord relieve me with thy grace my sin is cause that i so need to have thy mercies aid in my so woeful case my sin is cause that scarce i dare to crave thy mercy manifold which only you may relieve my soul and take my sins away

it's quite dramatic isn't it i hope you like that i'm going to feature 10 women writers uh in the next in the coming days of sonnets particularly sonnets of course i feature lots of uh lots of writers men and women this is not uh um an only woman uh uh podcast of course that would know that would be um dull wouldn't it after a bit and only anything podcast does get a bit dull i think so i really hope you enjoyed that but um have a look you know when you read his stuff from history and uh somebody says this this is true because it's in a history book always question it always always question it just because you read it in a book or heard it online sorting google or any of these things you know it doesn't mean anything only the victor writes the history and in in the in the future in many hundreds of years in another 500 years time the really who would have written history google and google gets stuff wrong all the time but this is what happens when when you leave it to where the money is you know um sad but true so make your own history and make your own research find find stuff out i'll be back later with another one

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Act V (5) Public Domain Audio Theatre

act 5 of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare act five scene one athens the palace of theseus enter theseus hippolyta philistrate lords and attendance to strange my thesis that these lovers speak of more strange than true i never may believe these antique fables nor these fairy toys lovers and mad men have such seething brains such shaping fantasies that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends the lunatic the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact one sees more devils than vast hell can hold that is the madman the lover all is frantic sees helen's beauty and a brow of egypt the poet's eye and fine frenzy rolling doth glance from heaven to earth from earth to heaven and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown the poet's pen turns them to shapes and gives to arie nothing a local habitation and a name such tricks have strong imagination that if it would but apprehend some joy it comprehends some bringer of that joy or in the night imagining some fear how easy is a bush supposed to bear but all the story of the night told over and all their minds transfigured so together more witnesses than fancy's images and grows to something of great constancy but however strange and admirable here come the lovers full of joy and mirth enter lysander demetrius hermia and helena friends joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts more than to us wait in your royal walks your board your bed come now what masks what dances shall we have to wear away this long age of three hours between our after supper and bedtime where is our usual manager of mirth what revels are in hand is there no play to ease the anguish of a torturing hour call phyllis strait here mighty theseus say what abridgement have you for this evening what mask what music how shall we beguile the lazy time if not with some delight there is a brief how many sports are ripe make choice of which your highness will see first giving a paper reads the battle with the centaurs to be sung by an athenian eunuch to the harp will none of that that have i told my love and glory of my kinsmen hercules the riot of the tipsy baccanals tearing the thracian singer in their rage that is an old device and it was played when i from thebes came last to conqueror the thrice three muses borning for the death of learning late deceased and beggary that is some satire keen and critical not sorting with a nuptial ceremony a tedious brief scene of young pyramus and his love thisbe very tragical mirth merry and tragical tedious and brief that is hot ice and wondrous strange snow how shall we find the concorde of this discord a play there is my lord some ten words long which is as brief as i have known a play but by ten words my lord it is too long which makes it tedious for in all the play there is not one word apt one player fitted and tragical my lord it is for pyramus therein doth kill himself which when i saw rehearsed i must confess made mine eyes water but more merry tears the passion of loud laughter never shed what are they that do play it hard-handed men that work in athens here which never labored in their mind still now and now have toiled their unbreathed memories with this same play against your nuptial and we will hear it no my noble lord it is not for you i have heard it over and it is nothing nothing in the world unless you can find sport in their intense extremely stretched and conned with cruel pain to do you service i will hear that play for never anything can be a mess when simpleness and duty tender it go bring them in and take your places ladies exit philistrate i love not to see wretchedness overcharged and duty in his service perishing why gentle sweet you shall see no such...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Act V (5) Public Domain Audio Theatre

act 5 of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare act five scene one athens the palace of theseus enter theseus hippolyta philistrate lords and attendance to strange my thesis that these lovers speak of more strange than true i never may believe these antique fables nor these fairy toys lovers and mad men have such seething brains such shaping fantasies that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends the lunatic the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact one sees more devils than vast hell can hold that is the madman the lover all is frantic sees helen's beauty and a brow of egypt the poet's eye and fine frenzy rolling doth glance from heaven to earth from earth to heaven and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown the poet's pen turns them to shapes and gives to arie nothing a local habitation and a name such tricks have strong imagination that if it would but apprehend some joy it comprehends some bringer of that joy or in the night imagining some fear how easy is a bush supposed to bear but all the story of the night told over and all their minds transfigured so together more witnesses than fancy's images and grows to something of great constancy but however strange and admirable here come the lovers full of joy and mirth enter lysander demetrius hermia and helena friends joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts more than to us wait in your royal walks your board your bed come now what masks what dances shall we have to wear away this long age of three hours between our after supper and bedtime where is our usual manager of mirth what revels are in hand is there no play to ease the anguish of a torturing hour call phyllis strait here mighty theseus say what abridgement have you for this evening what mask what music how shall we beguile the lazy time if not with some delight there is a brief how many sports are ripe make choice of which your highness will see first giving a paper reads the battle with the centaurs to be sung by an athenian eunuch to the harp will none of that that have i told my love and glory of my kinsmen hercules the riot of the tipsy baccanals tearing the thracian singer in their rage that is an old device and it was played when i from thebes came last to conqueror the thrice three muses borning for the death of learning late deceased and beggary that is some satire keen and critical not sorting with a nuptial ceremony a tedious brief scene of young pyramus and his love thisbe very tragical mirth merry and tragical tedious and brief that is hot ice and wondrous strange snow how shall we find the concorde of this discord a play there is my lord some ten words long which is as brief as i have known a play but by ten words my lord it is too long which makes it tedious for in all the play there is not one word apt one player fitted and tragical my lord it is for pyramus therein doth kill himself which when i saw rehearsed i must confess made mine eyes water but more merry tears the passion of loud laughter never shed what are they that do play it hard-handed men that work in athens here which never labored in their mind still now and now have toiled their unbreathed memories with this same play against your nuptial and we will hear it no my noble lord it is not for you i have heard it over and it is nothing nothing in the world unless you can find sport in their intense extremely stretched and conned with cruel pain to do you service i will hear that play for never anything can be a mess when simpleness and duty tender it go bring them in and take your places ladies exit philistrate i love not to see wretchedness overcharged and duty in his service perishing why gentle sweet you shall see no such...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Act lV (4) Public Domain Audio Theatre.

act 4 of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare act four scene one the same lysander demetrius helena and hermia lying asleep enter titania and bottom peas blossom cobweb moth mustard seed and other fairies attending oberon behind unseen come sit thee down upon this flowery bed while i thy amiable cheeks do coy and stick musk roses in my sleek smooth head and kiss thy fair large ears my gentle joy where is peace blossom ready scratch my ad please blossom where's moonshore cobweb ready moon sure cobweb goodmanshire get you your weapons in your hand and kill me a red-dipped humblebee on the top of a thistle and goodman sure bring me the oni bag do not fret yourself too much in the action monsieur and goodman sure have a carry the only bag break not i would be loath to have you overflown with honey bags ignore where's monsieur mustard seed ready give me your knife moonshore mustard seed pray you leave your courtesy good monsieur what's your will nothing goodman's europe but well cavallari cobweb to scratch i'm most of the barber's monsieur for me things are in marvelous area about the face and i'm such a tender ass if my hair do but tickle me i must scratch what wilt thou hear some music my sweet love i have a reasonable good air in music let's have the tongues and the bones or say sweet love what thou desirest to eat truly a peck of provender i could munch your good dry oats me thinks i have a great desire to a bottle of hay good hay sweet hay hath no fellow i have a venturous fairy that shall seek the squirrel's horde and fetch the new nuts i'd rather have a handful or two of dried peas but i pray you let none of your people starve me i have an exposition of sleep come upon me sleep thou and i will wind thee in my arms fairies be gone and be always away exient fairies so does the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle gently and twist the female ivy sew and rings the barky fingers of the elm oh how i love thee how i dote on thee they sleep enter puck welcome good robin advancing thou this sweet sight her dotage now i do begin to pity for meeting her of late behind the wood seeking sweet favors from this hateful fool i did upgrade her and fall out with her for she his hairy temples then had rounded with a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers and that same dew which sometime on the buds was want to swell like round and orient pearls stood now within the pretty flower its eyes like tears that did their own disgrace bewail when i had at my pleasure taunted her and she in mild terms begged my patience i then did ask of her her changeling child which straight she gave me and her fairy sent to bear him to my bower in fairy land and now i have the boy i will undo this hateful imperfection of her eyes and gentle puck take this transformative scalp from off the head of this athenian swain that he awaken when the other do may all to athens back again repair and think no more of this night's accidents but as the fierce vexation of a dream but first i will release the fairy queen be as thou must want to be see as thou wast want to see diane's bud or cupid's flower hath such force and blessed power now my titania wake you my sweet queen my oberon what visions have i seen me thought i was enamored of an ass there lies your love how came these things to pass oh how mine eyes do loathe his visage now silence a while robin take off this head titania music call and strike more dead than common sleep of all these five the sense music hoe music such as charmeth sleep music still now when thou wakest with thine own fool's eyes peep sound music come my queen take hands with me and rock the ground whereon these sleepers be now thou and i are new and amity and will tomorrow midnight...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Act lV (4) Public Domain Audio Theatre.

act 4 of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare act four scene one the same lysander demetrius helena and hermia lying asleep enter titania and bottom peas blossom cobweb moth mustard seed and other fairies attending oberon behind unseen come sit thee down upon this flowery bed while i thy amiable cheeks do coy and stick musk roses in my sleek smooth head and kiss thy fair large ears my gentle joy where is peace blossom ready scratch my ad please blossom where's moonshore cobweb ready moon sure cobweb goodmanshire get you your weapons in your hand and kill me a red-dipped humblebee on the top of a thistle and goodman sure bring me the oni bag do not fret yourself too much in the action monsieur and goodman sure have a carry the only bag break not i would be loath to have you overflown with honey bags ignore where's monsieur mustard seed ready give me your knife moonshore mustard seed pray you leave your courtesy good monsieur what's your will nothing goodman's europe but well cavallari cobweb to scratch i'm most of the barber's monsieur for me things are in marvelous area about the face and i'm such a tender ass if my hair do but tickle me i must scratch what wilt thou hear some music my sweet love i have a reasonable good air in music let's have the tongues and the bones or say sweet love what thou desirest to eat truly a peck of provender i could munch your good dry oats me thinks i have a great desire to a bottle of hay good hay sweet hay hath no fellow i have a venturous fairy that shall seek the squirrel's horde and fetch the new nuts i'd rather have a handful or two of dried peas but i pray you let none of your people starve me i have an exposition of sleep come upon me sleep thou and i will wind thee in my arms fairies be gone and be always away exient fairies so does the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle gently and twist the female ivy sew and rings the barky fingers of the elm oh how i love thee how i dote on thee they sleep enter puck welcome good robin advancing thou this sweet sight her dotage now i do begin to pity for meeting her of late behind the wood seeking sweet favors from this hateful fool i did upgrade her and fall out with her for she his hairy temples then had rounded with a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers and that same dew which sometime on the buds was want to swell like round and orient pearls stood now within the pretty flower its eyes like tears that did their own disgrace bewail when i had at my pleasure taunted her and she in mild terms begged my patience i then did ask of her her changeling child which straight she gave me and her fairy sent to bear him to my bower in fairy land and now i have the boy i will undo this hateful imperfection of her eyes and gentle puck take this transformative scalp from off the head of this athenian swain that he awaken when the other do may all to athens back again repair and think no more of this night's accidents but as the fierce vexation of a dream but first i will release the fairy queen be as thou must want to be see as thou wast want to see diane's bud or cupid's flower hath such force and blessed power now my titania wake you my sweet queen my oberon what visions have i seen me thought i was enamored of an ass there lies your love how came these things to pass oh how mine eyes do loathe his visage now silence a while robin take off this head titania music call and strike more dead than common sleep of all these five the sense music hoe music such as charmeth sleep music still now when thou wakest with thine own fool's eyes peep sound music come my queen take hands with me and rock the ground whereon these sleepers be now thou and i are new and amity and will tomorrow midnight...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Act lll (3) Public Domain Audio Theatre.

act three of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare act three scene one the wood titania lying asleep in enter quince snug bottom flute snout and starving are we all matt pat pat and here's a marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal this green plot shall be our stage this hawthorne break our tiring house and we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke peter quinn's what sayeth thou bully bottom there are things in this comedy of permus and this be that we'll never please first permis must draw a sword to kill himself which the ladies cannot avoid i want to see that buyer lincoln a powerless fear i believe we must leave the killing out when all is done not a wit i have a device to make all well write me a prologue and let the prologue seem to say we will do no arm with our swords and that pyramus is not killed indeed and for the more better assurance tell them that i pyramus am not pyramus but bottom the weaver this will put them out of fear well we will have such a prologue and it shall be written in eight and six no make it two more let it be written in eight and eight will not the ladies be a feared of the lion i fear it i promise you masters you ought to consider with yourselves to bring in god shield us a lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing but there is not a more fearful wildfowl then you're lying living and we ought to look to it therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion name you must name his name and half his face must be seen through the lion's neck and he himself must speak through saying thus or the same defect ladies or fair ladies i would wish you or i would request you or i would entreat you not affair not to tremble my life for yours if you think i come heather as a lion it were pity of my life no i am no such thing i am a man as other men are and then indeed let him name his name and tell them plainly he is snug the joiner well it shall be so but there is two hard things that is to bring the moonlight into a chamber for you know pyramus and thisbe meet by moonlight doth the moon shine that night we play our play a calendar a calendar look in the almanac find out moonshine find out moonshine yes it does shine that night why then may you leave a casement of the great chamber window where we play open and the moon may shine in at the casement i or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lantern and say he comes to disfigure or to present the person of moonshine then there is another thing we must have a wall in the great chamber for pyramus and thisbe says the story to talk through the [ __ ] of a wall you can never bring in a wall what say you bottom

some man or other must present wall and let him have some plaster or some loam or some rough cast about him to signify wall let him hold his fingers thus and through that cranny shall pyramus and this be whisper if that may be then all is will come sit down every mother son and rehearse your parts pyramus you begin when you have spoken your speech enter into that break and sew everyone according to his cue and her puck behind what hempen homespuns have we swaggering here so near the cradle of the fairy queen what a play toward i'll be an auditor an actor too perhaps if i see cause speak pyramus thisbe stand forth this be the flowers of odious savers sweet odors odors savors sweet so hot by breath my dearest this be dare but hark a voice stay thou but here a while and by and boy i will do they appear exit a stranger pyramus and airplayed here exit must i speak now i marry must you for you must understand he goes but to see a noise that he heard and is to come again most radiant pyramids most lily white of hugh of color like the red...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Act lll (3) Public Domain Audio Theatre.

act three of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare act three scene one the wood titania lying asleep in enter quince snug bottom flute snout and starving are we all matt pat pat and here's a marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal this green plot shall be our stage this hawthorne break our tiring house and we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke peter quinn's what sayeth thou bully bottom there are things in this comedy of permus and this be that we'll never please first permis must draw a sword to kill himself which the ladies cannot avoid i want to see that buyer lincoln a powerless fear i believe we must leave the killing out when all is done not a wit i have a device to make all well write me a prologue and let the prologue seem to say we will do no arm with our swords and that pyramus is not killed indeed and for the more better assurance tell them that i pyramus am not pyramus but bottom the weaver this will put them out of fear well we will have such a prologue and it shall be written in eight and six no make it two more let it be written in eight and eight will not the ladies be a feared of the lion i fear it i promise you masters you ought to consider with yourselves to bring in god shield us a lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing but there is not a more fearful wildfowl then you're lying living and we ought to look to it therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion name you must name his name and half his face must be seen through the lion's neck and he himself must speak through saying thus or the same defect ladies or fair ladies i would wish you or i would request you or i would entreat you not affair not to tremble my life for yours if you think i come heather as a lion it were pity of my life no i am no such thing i am a man as other men are and then indeed let him name his name and tell them plainly he is snug the joiner well it shall be so but there is two hard things that is to bring the moonlight into a chamber for you know pyramus and thisbe meet by moonlight doth the moon shine that night we play our play a calendar a calendar look in the almanac find out moonshine find out moonshine yes it does shine that night why then may you leave a casement of the great chamber window where we play open and the moon may shine in at the casement i or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lantern and say he comes to disfigure or to present the person of moonshine then there is another thing we must have a wall in the great chamber for pyramus and thisbe says the story to talk through the [ __ ] of a wall you can never bring in a wall what say you bottom

some man or other must present wall and let him have some plaster or some loam or some rough cast about him to signify wall let him hold his fingers thus and through that cranny shall pyramus and this be whisper if that may be then all is will come sit down every mother son and rehearse your parts pyramus you begin when you have spoken your speech enter into that break and sew everyone according to his cue and her puck behind what hempen homespuns have we swaggering here so near the cradle of the fairy queen what a play toward i'll be an auditor an actor too perhaps if i see cause speak pyramus thisbe stand forth this be the flowers of odious savers sweet odors odors savors sweet so hot by breath my dearest this be dare but hark a voice stay thou but here a while and by and boy i will do they appear exit a stranger pyramus and airplayed here exit must i speak now i marry must you for you must understand he goes but to see a noise that he heard and is to come again most radiant pyramids most lily white of hugh of color like the red...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Act ll (2) Public Domain Audio Theatre.

act three of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare act three scene one the wood titania lying asleep in enter quince snug bottom flute snout and starving are we all matt pat pat and here's a marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal this green plot shall be our stage this hawthorne break our tiring house and we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke peter quinn's what sayeth thou bully bottom there are things in this comedy of permus and this be that we'll never please first permis must draw a sword to kill himself which the ladies cannot avoid i want to see that buyer lincoln a powerless fear i believe we must leave the killing out when all is done not a wit i have a device to make all well write me a prologue and let the prologue seem to say we will do no arm with our swords and that pyramus is not killed indeed and for the more better assurance tell them that i pyramus am not pyramus but bottom the weaver this will put them out of fear well we will have such a prologue and it shall be written in eight and six no make it two more let it be written in eight and eight will not the ladies be a feared of the lion i fear it i promise you masters you ought to consider with yourselves to bring in god shield us a lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing but there is not a more fearful wildfowl then you're lying living and we ought to look to it therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion name you must name his name and half his face must be seen through the lion's neck and he himself must speak through saying thus or the same defect ladies or fair ladies i would wish you or i would request you or i would entreat you not affair not to tremble my life for yours if you think i come heather as a lion it were pity of my life no i am no such thing i am a man as other men are and then indeed let him name his name and tell them plainly he is snug the joiner well it shall be so but there is two hard things that is to bring the moonlight into a chamber for you know pyramus and thisbe meet by moonlight doth the moon shine that night we play our play a calendar a calendar look in the almanac find out moonshine find out moonshine yes it does shine that night why then may you leave a casement of the great chamber window where we play open and the moon may shine in at the casement i or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lantern and say he comes to disfigure or to present the person of moonshine then there is another thing we must have a wall in the great chamber for pyramus and thisbe says the story to talk through the [ __ ] of a wall you can never bring in a wall what say you bottom

some man or other must present wall and let him have some plaster or some loam or some rough cast about him to signify wall let him hold his fingers thus and through that cranny shall pyramus and this be whisper if that may be then all is will come sit down every mother son and rehearse your parts pyramus you begin when you have spoken your speech enter into that break and sew everyone according to his cue and her puck behind what hempen homespuns have we swaggering here so near the cradle of the fairy queen what a play toward i'll be an auditor an actor too perhaps if i see cause speak pyramus thisbe stand forth this be the flowers of odious savers sweet odors odors savors sweet so hot by breath my dearest this be dare but hark a voice stay thou but here a while and by and boy i will do they appear exit a stranger pyramus and airplayed here exit must i speak now i marry must you for you must understand he goes but to see a noise that he heard and is to come again most radiant pyramids most lily white of hugh of color like the red rose...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Act ll (2) Public Domain Audio Theatre.

act three of a midsummer night's dream this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare act three scene one the wood titania lying asleep in enter quince snug bottom flute snout and starving are we all matt pat pat and here's a marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal this green plot shall be our stage this hawthorne break our tiring house and we will do it in action as we will do it before the duke peter quinn's what sayeth thou bully bottom there are things in this comedy of permus and this be that we'll never please first permis must draw a sword to kill himself which the ladies cannot avoid i want to see that buyer lincoln a powerless fear i believe we must leave the killing out when all is done not a wit i have a device to make all well write me a prologue and let the prologue seem to say we will do no arm with our swords and that pyramus is not killed indeed and for the more better assurance tell them that i pyramus am not pyramus but bottom the weaver this will put them out of fear well we will have such a prologue and it shall be written in eight and six no make it two more let it be written in eight and eight will not the ladies be a feared of the lion i fear it i promise you masters you ought to consider with yourselves to bring in god shield us a lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing but there is not a more fearful wildfowl then you're lying living and we ought to look to it therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion name you must name his name and half his face must be seen through the lion's neck and he himself must speak through saying thus or the same defect ladies or fair ladies i would wish you or i would request you or i would entreat you not affair not to tremble my life for yours if you think i come heather as a lion it were pity of my life no i am no such thing i am a man as other men are and then indeed let him name his name and tell them plainly he is snug the joiner well it shall be so but there is two hard things that is to bring the moonlight into a chamber for you know pyramus and thisbe meet by moonlight doth the moon shine that night we play our play a calendar a calendar look in the almanac find out moonshine find out moonshine yes it does shine that night why then may you leave a casement of the great chamber window where we play open and the moon may shine in at the casement i or else one must come in with a bush of thorns and a lantern and say he comes to disfigure or to present the person of moonshine then there is another thing we must have a wall in the great chamber for pyramus and thisbe says the story to talk through the [ __ ] of a wall you can never bring in a wall what say you bottom

some man or other must present wall and let him have some plaster or some loam or some rough cast about him to signify wall let him hold his fingers thus and through that cranny shall pyramus and this be whisper if that may be then all is will come sit down every mother son and rehearse your parts pyramus you begin when you have spoken your speech enter into that break and sew everyone according to his cue and her puck behind what hempen homespuns have we swaggering here so near the cradle of the fairy queen what a play toward i'll be an auditor an actor too perhaps if i see cause speak pyramus thisbe stand forth this be the flowers of odious savers sweet odors odors savors sweet so hot by breath my dearest this be dare but hark a voice stay thou but here a while and by and boy i will do they appear exit a stranger pyramus and airplayed here exit must i speak now i marry must you for you must understand he goes but to see a noise that he heard and is to come again most radiant pyramids most lily white of hugh of color like the red rose...