A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Otis Harlan: Starveling - the Tailor
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Starveling - the Tailor : [Precariously gets up onto a chair, holding up a lantern to speak as the moon, and a thorn bush tied to a dog's collar in his other hand; all cheer as he manages to stand on the chair] This lanthorn doth the horned moon present; Myself the man...
Theseus - Duke of Athens : He should have worn horns on his head.
Starveling - the Tailor : This lanthorn doth the horned moon present; Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be. This do...
Theseus - Duke of Athens : This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man should be put into the lantern.
Starveling - the Tailor : This lan...
Theseus - Duke of Athens : How is it else the man i' the moon?
Starveling - the Tailor : This lantern doth...
Hippolyta - Queen of the Amazons - Betrothed to Theseus : I am so weary of this moon: would he would change!
Starveling - the Tailor : [gurning] This lantern...
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia : Proceed, Moon.
Starveling - the Tailor : [sighs, then speaks very quickly] All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the lantern is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.
