All. Indeed, an’ ’twere but pity of your life, Peter Quince.

Bottom. How say you, masters, shall not we spread ourselves? [All sit down.

Miranda. O Ferdinand, be these all mortal like

Ourselves? More surely I did never spy

So hideously strange a being such

As he who hath the ass’s head.

Ferdinand.Nor I.

Belike he hath incurr’d some wizard’s spite

And, all unwitting, wears this semblance till

The wizard’s anger shall be spent. But see,