Bot. Well, proceed.
050 Quin. Robin Starveling, the tailor.
Star. Here, Peter Quince.
Quin. Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby’s mother. Tom Snout, the tinker.
Snout. Here, Peter Quince.
055 Quin. You, Pyramus’ father: myself, Thisby’s father: [056] Snug, the joiner; you, the lion’s part: and, I hope, here is a play fitted.
Snug. Have you the lion’s part written? pray you, if [059] it be, give it me, for I am slow of study.
060 Quin. You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.
Bot. Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will do any man’s heart good to hear me; I will roar, that I will make the duke say, ‘Let him roar again, let him roar 065 again.’
[066] Quin. An you should do it too terribly, you would fright the duchess and the ladies, that they would shriek; and that were enough to hang us all.