# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

(stage directions)

264

[Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING]

2

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Quince

280

Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver.

3

Midsummer Night's Dream
[I, 2]

Quince

282

You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.

4

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

819

[Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING]

5

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Quince

826

What sayest thou, bully Bottom?

6

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Bottom

833

Not a whit: I have a device to make all well.
Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to
say, we will do no harm 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.

7

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Snout

877

You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom?

8

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

917

[Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass's head]

9

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Snout

932

O Bottom, thou art changed! what do I see on thee?

10

Midsummer Night's Dream
[III, 1]

Quince

937

Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art
translated.

11

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1]

(stage directions)

1542

lying asleep.
[Enter TITANIA and BOTTOM; PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH,]
MUSTARDSEED, and other Fairies attending; OBERON
behind unseen]

12

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 1]

Bottom

1762

[Awaking] When my cue comes, call me, and I will
answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho!
Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout,
the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen
hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare
vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to
say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go
about to expound this dream. Methought I was—there
is no man can tell what. Methought I was,—and
methought I had,—but man is but a patched fool, if
he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye
of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not
seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue
to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream
was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of
this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,
because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the
latter end of a play, before the duke:
peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall
sing it at her death.

13

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 2]

Flute

1802

O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a
day during his life; he could not have 'scaped
sixpence a day: an the duke had not given him
sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged;
he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in
Pyramus, or nothing.

14

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 2]

(stage directions)

1808

[Enter BOTTOM]

15

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 2]

Quince

1810

Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!

16

Midsummer Night's Dream
[IV, 2]

Quince

1814

Let us hear, sweet Bottom.