...was,—and methouglu I had,—but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methouglu I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was [cf. i Cor 2, 9. i2; Is 64, 4; 65, t7]. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it...

...be a blundering fool to say what I thought I had. The eye of man has not heard, the ear of man has not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue...get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream, and it shall be called 'Bottom's Dream' because it had no bottom; and I will sing it at the end of...

...— there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had — but man is but a patch'd fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had....conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (4.1.zo4-14)2 CLARENCE: Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower. . . . Methought that Gloucester...

...attempts to recognize his reality: Methought 1 was, and methought I had — but man is but [a patch'd] fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had....conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was (4.1.206-21 1). These mangled, misquoted lines (see 1 Cor. 2:9) reveal more than the humor of this...

...wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about [f] expound this dream. . . . The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream. It shall be called "Bottom's Dream," because it hath no bottom; and I will sing...

...Power 203 by confusing sight and hearing in his bungled rendering of a passage from I Corinthians: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (4.l.2II-l4). Despite its rich visual imagery, A Midsummer Night's Dream keeps reminding us that the...

...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...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was." It is not our "I am" systems to which our dreams refer; it is our "I am not" systems to which our dreams...

...Shakespearean judgment of the relative importance of the various senses to the theatrical experience: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (MND, 4. 2.210- 14). M And as a deformation of the text of St. Paul, Bottom's formulation would have...

...'ineffable' I simply mean 'beyond expression', for that is what Bottom later finds to be the case: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream...conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. (4.1.201-10) Well, I — as expounding ass and patched fool for the occasion — will venture to say...

...words as a judgment of the relative importance of the various senses to the theatrical experience: "The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath...conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was" (4. 1 .21 1-14). 27 Such a deformation of a text of St. Paul (1 Corinthians 2:9-10) would have an easily...