Bottom awakens alone in the woods after his magical transformation and encounter with the Fairy Queen, Titania. He struggles to articulate the profound and surreal nature of his 'vision,' ultimately deciding to have a ballad written about the experience to perform for the Duke.
BOTTOM: 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.
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