Shakespeare and the Stage / With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes

by Maurice Jonas

O, kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!

THIS.

I kiss the wall’s hole, not your lips at all.

PYR.

Wilt thou at Ninny’s tomb meet me straightway?

THIS.

’Tide life, ’tide death, I’d come without delay.

(Exeunt Pyramus and Thisbe.)

WALL.

Thus have I, wall, my part discharged so;