![]() ![]() He wore a pointy- cloth cap for Puck, and a paper donkey’s head out of a Christmas cracker – but it tore if you were not careful – for Bottom. Dan was Puck and Nick Bottom, as well as all three Fairies. Then they skipped to the part where Bottom asks three little fairies to scratch his head and bring him honey, and they ended where he falls asleep in Titania’s arms. They began when Nick Bottom the weaver comes out of the bushes with a donkey’s head on his shoulders, and finds Titania, Queen of the Fairies, asleep. Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with him and with their mother till they could say it by heart. The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Night’s Dream. Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease, And so was England born! O they are the lines the Flint Men made, To guard their wondrous towns! ![]() O that was a Legion’s camping-place, When Caesar sailed from Gaul!Īnd see you marks that show and fade, Like shadows on the Downs? O there was a City thronged and known, Ere London boasted a house! O that was where the Northmen fled, When Alfred’s ships came by! She has ground her corn and paid her tax Ever since Domesday Book. O that was where they hauled the guns That smote King Philip’s fleet! ‘Prophets have honour all over the Earth’ A Smugglers’ Song ![]()
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