Horace Vernet The Lion Hunt painting

Horace Vernet The Lion Hunt painting
Alphonse Maria Mucha Untitled Alphonse Maria Mucha painting
Where are these lads? where are these hearts?
QUINCE
Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!
BOTTOM
Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me notwhat; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. Iwill tell you every thing, right as it fell out.
QUINCE
Let us hear, sweet Bottom.
BOTTOM
Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, thatthe duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,good strings to your beards, new ribbons to yourpumps; meet presently at the palace; every man looko'er his part; for the short and the long is, ourplay is preferred. In any case, let Thisby haveclean linen; and let not him that plays the lionpair his nails, for they shall hang out for thelion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onionsnor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and Ido not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweetcomedy. No more words: away! go, away!
[Exeunt] [Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords and Attendants]HIPPOLYTA
'Tis strange my Theseus, that theselovers speak of.
THESEUS