26. 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.
27. That would hang us, every mother's son.
25. 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 again.”
29. You can play no part but Pyramus, for Pyramus is a sweet-faced man, a proper man as one shall see in a summer's day, a most lovely, gentlemanlike man. Therefore you must needs play Pyramus.
28. I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us, but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove. I will roar as if I were any nightingale.
31. Why, what you wish.
30. Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I bestto play it in?
33. Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and then you would play barefaced. – But masters, here are your parts, and I am to beg you, request you, and desire you to con them by tomorrow night, and meet me in the palace wood a mile outside the town. By moonlight There will we rehearse, for if we meet in the city we shall be dogged with company and our intentions known. In the meantime I will draw prop list such as our play needs. I pray you fail me not.
32. I will perform it in either your straw-colorbeard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your French-crown-color beard, your perfectyellow.
35. At the Duke's forest we will meet.
34. We will meet, and there we may rehearse mostobscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect. Adieu.