Music Reference ID Work Character RSC Line Number RSC Text Norton Oxford Line Number Norton Oxford Text F1 Character F1 Text First Edition Character First Edition Text Third Edition Text Through Line Number Q1 Q2 Q3 Arden Line Number Arden Text Oxford Line Number Oxford Text Cambridge Line Number Cambridge Text Comments
301 A Midsummer Night's Dream Theseus 4.1.107 And mark the ^musical^ confusion | Of hounds and echo in conjunction Thes. And marke the musicall confusion | Of hounds and eccho in coniunction. 1631 4.1.109 4.1.109 4.1.107
302 A Midsummer Night's Dream Hippolyta 4.1.114 I never heard | So ^musical a discord^, such sweet thunder. Hip. I neuer heard | So musicall a discord, such sweet thunder. 1638 4.1.116 4.1.116 4.1.114
303 A Midsummer Night's Dream Theseus 4.1.120 but matched in mouth like ^bells^, | Each under each. A cry more ^tuneable^ | Was never holla’d to nor cheered with ^horn^ Thes. A cry more tuneable | Was neuer hallowed to, nor cheer'd with horne, 1645 …hollowed to… 4.1.123 4.1.123 4.1.121 …hallooed to… ...hollawed... [in F2 and F3]
304 A Midsummer Night's Dream Theseus 4.1.135 Go bid the huntsmen wake them with their ^horns^. Thes. Goe bid the hunts-men wake them with their | hornes. 1659 4.1.137 4.1.137 4.1.135
305 A Midsummer Night's Dream SD 4.1.135 Shout within: ^wind horns^. [The lovers] all start up. SD Hornes and they wake. | Shout within, they all start vp. 1661 Shoute within: they all start vp. Winde hornes. 4.1.137 …winding of horns… 4.1.137 4.1.135
306 A Midsummer Night's Dream Bottom 4.1.207 I will get Peter Quince to write | a ^ballad^ of this dream. It shall be called ‘Bottom’s Dream’, | because it hath no bottom, and I will ^sing^ it in the latter end | of the play, before the Duke. Peradventure, to take it the more | gracious, I shall ^sing^ it at her death Clo. I will get Peter | Quince to write a ballet of this dreame, it shall be called | Bottomes Dreame, because it hath no bottome; and I will | sing it in the latter end of a play, before the Duke. Peradventure, | to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it | at her death. 1740 4.1.212 4.1.210 4.1.207 …Ballad… [in F4]
307 A Midsummer Night's Dream Theseus 5.1.32 Come now, what ^masques^, what ^dances^ shall we have | To wear away this long age of three hours | Between our after-supper and bed-time? | Where is our usual manager of mirth? | What ^revels^ are in hand? The. Come now, what maskes, what dances shall | we haue, To weare away this long age of three houres, | Between our after supper, and bed-time? | Where is our vsuall manager of mirth? | What Reuels are in hand? 1826 ...betweene | Or after supper, ... 5.1.32 5.1.32 5.1.32
308 A Midsummer Night's Dream Theseus 5.1.40 What ^masque^, what ^music^? The. What maske? What musicke? 1837 5.1.40 5.1.40 5.1.40
309 A Midsummer Night's Dream Theseus 5.1.44 ‘The battle with the centaurs, to be ^sung^ | By an ^Athenian eunuch to the harp^.’ Lis. The battell with the Centaurs to be sung | By an Athenian Eunuch, to the Harpe. 1841 5.1.44 5.1.44 5.1.44 Theseus speaks this line in Q; Lysander in Cambridge
310 A Midsummer Night's Dream Theseus 5.1.48 ‘The riot of the tipsy bacchanals | Tearing the ^Thracian singer^ in their rage.’ Lis. The riot of the tipsie Bachanals, | Tearing the Thracian singer, in their rage? 1845 5.1.48 5.1.48 5.1.48 Theseus speaks this line in Q; Lysander in Cambridge