010 That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,

Were met together to rehearse a play,

Intended for great Theseus’ nuptial-day.

[013] The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,

Who Pyramus presented, in their sport

015 Forsook his scene, and enter’d in a brake:

When I did him at this advantage take,

[017] An ass’s nole I fixed on his head:

Anon his Thisbe must be answered,

[019] And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,